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Rare star 46 EP

34Psi2Dra

RA 268.7964° · Dec 72.0051° · star

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
46 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Bright giant +12
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 46

4 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Bright giant · +12
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) · +10

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F2.5II-III — 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 5.4 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Draco.
  • 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 18.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-2.12
bv
0.34
constellation
Dra
dist ly
1055.5211
luminosity
613.762
mag
5.43
name
34Psi2Dra
spect
F2.5II-III

About 34Psi2Dra

34Psi2Dra is a rare star. It lies about 1,055.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Dra, shines at apparent magnitude 5.43 and has spectral type F2.5II-III.

Its spectrum reads F2.5II-III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for 34Psi2Dra in the constellation Dra. At apparent magnitude 5.43, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 34Psi2Dra 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 34Psi2Dra is a rare star

34Psi2Dra scores 46 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), 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.