Acubens

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distance

The distance of Acubens calculated from the Gaia Data Release 2 parallax is roughly 50 parsecs from Earth, or approximately 164 light-years away.

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Acubens (stars.astro.illinois.edu) ACUBENS (Alpha Cancri). Though Bayer’s Alpha star, Acubens, at faint fourth magnitude (4.25), ranks only fourth in the constellation Cancer, after Beta (Al Tarf), Delta (Asellus Australis), even Iota, probably because of its position as a southern claw of the celestial crab.

stellar classification

Its [Acuben’s] stellar classification is given as kA7VmF0/2III/IVSr, indicating an Am star with calcium K-lines similar to an A7 main sequence star and hydrogen lines more like an F0 giant or subgiant star.

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visibility

Acubens is a fourth-magnitude star with an apparent magnitude of 4.20, making it barely visible to the naked eye under good lighting conditions.

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13768

Wikipedia

Acubens (Wikipedia) Acubens /ˈækjuːbɛnz/, Bayer designation Alpha Cancri (α Cancri, abbreviated Alpha Cnc, α Cnc), is a star system in the constellation of Cancer.