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Rare star 47 EP

Sargas

RA 264.3297° · Dec -42.9978° · star

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
47 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Bright giant +12
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 47

3 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Has a proper name · +8
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Bright giant · +12
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) · +10

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F1II — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a bright giant, well on its way to the largest stars there are.

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 1.9 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, 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 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. ≈ 5.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-2.961
bv
0.406
constellation
Sco
dist ly
300.3277
luminosity
1331.6804
mag
1.86
name
Sargas
named
yes
spect
F1II

About Sargas

Sargas is a rare star. It lies about 300.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco, shines at apparent magnitude 1.86 and has spectral type F1II.

Its spectrum reads F1II — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for Sargas in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 1.86, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, Sargas 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 Sargas is a rare star

Sargas scores 47 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star, Bright giant 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.