β Cas. Magnitude 2.27, yellow-white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Astronomers call it β Cas — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Caph is the name people actually use.
Caph shines at magnitude 2.27, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.34 makes it yellow-white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 6,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 0.15 hours and declination +59.1°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.
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