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Star in the constellation Cassiopeia
50 Cassiopeiae is a white
star in the northern
constellation of
Cassiopeia . In the past, it had been misidentified as a suspected
nebula , and given the number NGC 771 .
[9] The star is visible to the naked eye, having an
apparent visual magnitude of +3.95.
[2] Based upon an annual
parallax shift of 20.76
mas , it is located 157
light years away. It is moving closer, having a heliocentric
radial velocity of −18 km/s,
[4] and will approach to within 82 ly in 1.879 million years.
[2]
A
light curve for 50 Cassiopeiae, plotted from
TESS data
[10]
It is an
A-type main-sequence star with a
stellar classification of A2 V.
[3] It is a suspected variable star with a very small amplitude.
[11] 50 Cas has an estimated 2.56 times the
mass of the Sun ,
[3] and about 2.5 times the
Sun's radius .
[6] It is radiating 64 times the
Sun's luminosity from its
photosphere at an
effective temperature of around 9,376 K.
[3]
The star was the brightest star in the occasionally used 1775 to 19th century constellation
Custos Messium , typically drawn as a depiction of Charles Messier standing on top of the giraffe (
Camelopardus ), between
Cepheus and Cassiopeia.
[12]
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S2CID
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arXiv :
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Bibcode :
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S2CID
18759600 .
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S2CID
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"50 Cas" .
SIMBAD .
Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2018-06-25 .
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arXiv :
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Bibcode :
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doi :
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05150.x .
S2CID
10505995 .
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