RA 191.2826° · Dec 45.4403° · star
26 more points to reach Mythic.
La Superba is an anomaly variable star. It lies about 1,045.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation CVn, shines at apparent magnitude 5.42 and has spectral type C7Iab.
Its spectrum reads C7Iab — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.
Look for La Superba in the constellation CVn. At apparent magnitude 5.42, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, La Superba 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.
La Superba scores 94 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 26 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 10 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, Carbon star (sooty red), Supergiant, Deep red star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — 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.