About Sharjah
Sharjah is an uncommon star. It lies about 47 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco and shines at apparent magnitude 11.34.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3810 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Uncommon star 22 EP
Sharjah
RA 243.1741° · Dec -18.8755° · star
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 34 pts → Rare
- Has a proper name +8
- Deep red star +8
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 22
12 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Has a proper name · +8
- On the zodiac · +3
- Deep red star · +8
Trivia
Sense of scale
- In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 11.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Scorpius.
- Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 825.1 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 73.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 470 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 10.549
- bv
- 1.486
- constellation
- Sco
- dist ly
- 46.956
- luminosity
- 0.0053
- mag
- 11.34
- name
- Sharjah
- named
- yes
How to see it
Look for Sharjah in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 11.34, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, Sharjah 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.
Why Sharjah is an uncommon star
Sharjah scores 22 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Has a proper name, On the zodiac and Deep red star — 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.