RA 95.9879° · Dec -52.6957° · star
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30 more points to reach Mythic.
Canopus is an anomaly star. It lies about 309.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude -0.62 and has spectral type F0Ib.
Its spectrum reads F0Ib — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for Canopus in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude -0.62, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Canopus is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Canopus scores 90 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 30 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Brilliant (mag < 1), Has a proper name, Yellow-white F-type star, Supergiant, Blindingly luminous (Mv < −5) and Canopus — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.