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Uncommon star 23 EP

30Ups1Cnc

RA 127.8772° · Dec 24.0811° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Giant star +6
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F0IIIn — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a giant. It has already exhausted its core hydrogen and swollen up enormously in response.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 5.7 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Cancer.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 4.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
1.288
bv
0.327
constellation
Cnc
dist ly
249.9281
luminosity
26.595
mag
5.71
name
30Ups1Cnc
spect
F0IIIn

About 30Ups1Cnc

30Ups1Cnc is an uncommon star. It lies about 249.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cnc, shines at apparent magnitude 5.71 and has spectral type F0IIIn.

Its spectrum reads F0IIIn — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for 30Ups1Cnc in the constellation Cnc. At apparent magnitude 5.71, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 30Ups1Cnc 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.

Why 30Ups1Cnc is an uncommon star

30Ups1Cnc scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star and Giant star — 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.