• Miaplacidus  Miaplacidus is a star in Carina. ########### ############### ################### ################### ################### ################### ################### ############### ###########  Type White subgiant  Constellation Carina  Magnitude 1.7  Spectral type A2IV  Distance 111 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer β Car  Yale HR 3685  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Miaplacidus/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag 1.7 · never rises from here  Miaplacidus is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: below the horizon.  No window in the next 40 days from this latitude.  It clears the horizon between about 4°S and 70°S: Machu Picchu or Nazca.   Miaplacidus never rises from 40.00,-83.00. It stays below the horizon all year at this latitude.   You will find it in Carina.   It is a white subgiant, 111 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1915.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates