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Rare star 48 EP

Gam1Nor

RA 244.2539° · Dec -50.0681° · star

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
48 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Supergiant +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 48

2 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Supergiant · +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) · +10

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F9Ia — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a luminous supergiant — among the largest and rarest stars in the galaxy.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 5 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Norma.
  • 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 25.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-3.298
bv
0.788
constellation
Nor
dist ly
1469.1713
luminosity
1816.3519
mag
4.97
name
Gam1Nor
spect
F9Ia

About Gam1Nor

Gam1Nor is a rare star. It lies about 1,469.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Nor, shines at apparent magnitude 4.97 and has spectral type F9Ia.

Its spectrum reads F9Ia — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for Gam1Nor in the constellation Nor. At apparent magnitude 4.97, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, Gam1Nor 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 Gam1Nor is a rare star

Gam1Nor scores 48 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 2 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, Supergiant 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.