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Common star 20 EP

HR 6267

RA 250.7757° · Dec 77.5140° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
20 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 20

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F4V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

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 6 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Ursa Minor.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around June — 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. ≈ 2.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
3.202
bv
0.43
constellation
UMi
dist ly
117.7459
luminosity
4.5625
mag
5.99
name
HR 6267
spect
F4V

About HR 6267

HR 6267 is a common star. It lies about 117.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMi, shines at apparent magnitude 5.99 and has spectral type F4V.

Its spectrum reads F4V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HR 6267 in the constellation UMi. At apparent magnitude 5.99, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 6267 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 HR 6267 is a common star

HR 6267 scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence 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.