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Common exoplanet 18 EP

HD 22781 b

RA 55.2066° · Dec 31.8259° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
18 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Eccentric orbit +9
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 18

4 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Eccentric orbit · +9

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 8.8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — 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. ≈ 1.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
12.8
diameter km
156901.26
discovery facility
Haute-Provence Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2011
dist ly
106.3379
eccentricity
0.8191
eq temp k
193.48
host star teff
5027
insolation
0.2456
mag
8.78
mass earth
4338.2
name
HD 22781 b
orbital period days
528.07
radius earth
12.3
semi major au
1.167
spect
K1
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 22781 b

HD 22781 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 106.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.78, has spectral type K1 and has an equilibrium temperature near 193 K.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 8.78, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 22781 b 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 HD 22781 b is a common exoplanet

HD 22781 b scores 18 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Eccentric orbit — 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.