50 Cassiopeiae
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Stern 50 Cassiopeiae |
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Observation dates equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Constellation | Cassiopeia | ||||||||||||||||
| Right ascension | 02 h 03 m 26.1 s | ||||||||||||||||
| declination | + 72 ° 25 ′ 17 ″ | ||||||||||||||||
| Apparent brightness | 3.95 likes | ||||||||||||||||
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| Spectral class | A2 V | ||||||||||||||||
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| parallax | (20.76 ± 0.14) mas | ||||||||||||||||
| distance | (157.1 ± 1.1) ly (48.2 ± 0.3) pc |
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50 Cassiopeiae ( 50 Cas for short ) is a main sequence star in the constellation Cassiopeia . It has an apparent visual brightness of 3.95 mag, belongs to the spectral class A2 and is about 160 light years away from Earth .
John Herschel believed to see the star a faint nebula . Subsequently it was listed in the New General Catalog as NGC 771 .