Acubens

Primary of Alpha Cancri in Cancer, a modest naked-eye system. It sits near the Beehive cluster on spring evenings. Look for it while tracing Cancer on a dark night.

Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.

ID: HIP 44066
Distance: 57.74 pc · 188.3 ly
Parallax: 17.32 mas (Hipparcos)
Magnitude (G): 4.30
Color (BP-RP): -
Radius: unknown
RA · Dec: 134.62° · 11.86°