Constellation
The constellation Cancer
Cnc
Cancer gathers 49 naked-eye stars —down to magnitude 6— in Stelvia's catalogue. The brightest is Tarf, and the constellation reaches its highest point of the night around January.
Cancer in figures
- Catalogued stars
- 49
- Brightest star
- Tarf
- Region of the sky
- Northern sky
- Highest around
- January
- With a proper name
- 8
- Nearest star
- Copernicus
Those visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6
Apparent magnitude 3.53
Declination from 7° to 33°
Month when it culminates at midnight
Stars with a traditional name, not just a catalogue designation
40 light years
These figures are computed over Stelvia's catalogue —stars visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6—, not over the constellation's real total: the count, the brightest and the nearest all refer to that catalogue. The region of the sky comes from the median declination of its stars; the month, from their mean right ascension.
Every star in Cancer
The 49 stars of Cancer catalogued by Stelvia, from the brightest to the faintest. Each one has its own page.
- TarfBeta Cancri3.53
- Asellus AustralisDelta Cancri3.94
- Iota Cancri4.03
- AcubensAlpha Cancri4.26
- Asellus BorealisGamma Cancri4.66
- TegmineZeta 2 Cancri4.67
- Chi Cancri5.13
- HIP 413255.13
- 8 Cancri5.14
- NahnXi Cancri5.16
- Omicron 1 Cancri5.22
- Rho 2 Cancri5.23
- Sigma 3 Cancri5.23
- Kappa Cancri5.23
- Mu 2 Cancri5.30
- Theta Cancri5.33
- Eta Cancri5.33
- Pi 2 Cancri5.36
- 57 Cancri5.40
- Tau Cancri5.42
- 60 Cancri5.44
- Sigma 2 Cancri5.44
- Nu Cancri5.45
- 27 Cancri5.56
- Phi 1 Cancri5.58
- 3 Cancri5.60
- 15 Cancri5.62
- 45 Cancri5.62
- 49 Cancri5.63
- Sigma 1 Cancri5.67
- Omicron 2 Cancri5.68
- Upsilon 1 Cancri5.71
- Psi Cancri5.73
- 1 Cancri5.80
- HIP 408665.80
- HIP 444065.85
- Omega 1 Cancri5.87
- 50 Cancri5.89
- 66 Cancri5.89
- HIP 421725.91
- PiautosLambda Cancri5.92
- 36 Cancri5.92
- 20 Cancri5.94
- 29 Cancri5.94
- 75 Cancri5.95
- Mu 1 Cancri5.96
- HIP 423655.96
- CopernicusRho 1 Cancri5.96
- 5 Cancri5.99
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.