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Common star 21 EP

HD 160150

RA 265.1138° · Dec -43.8619° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Bright giant +12
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 21

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Bright giant · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F3/F5II — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 8.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, 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. ≈ 13 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.527
bv
0.642
constellation
Sco
dist ly
737.9094
luminosity
21.3403
mag
8.3
name
HD 160150
spect
F3/F5II

About HD 160150

HD 160150 is a common star. It lies about 737.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco, shines at apparent magnitude 8.3 and has spectral type F3/F5II.

Its spectrum reads F3/F5II — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 160150 in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 8.3, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 160150 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 160150 is a common star

HD 160150 scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star and Bright giant — 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.