RA 194.0071° · Dec 38.3184° · star
12 more points to reach Epic.
Cor Caroli is a rare variable star. It lies about 114.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation CVn, shines at apparent magnitude 2.89 and has spectral type A0spe....
Its spectrum reads A0spe... — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for Cor Caroli in the constellation CVn. At apparent magnitude 2.89, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Cor Caroli 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.
Cor Caroli scores 38 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, White A-type star, Blue-white star, Gently variable and A named variable 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.