RA 228.6555° · Dec -31.5191° · star
14 more points to reach Epic.
1 Lup is a rare star. It lies about 1,953 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Lup, shines at apparent magnitude 4.91 and has spectral type F3III.
Its spectrum reads F3III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for 1 Lup in the constellation Lup. At apparent magnitude 4.91, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, 1 Lup is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
1 Lup scores 36 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 14 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Yellow-white F-type star, Giant star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.