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Epic variable star 57 EP

HR 7165

RA 284.5614° · Dec 17.3609° · star

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Score breakdown

· 8 badges
57 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Supergiant +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Variable star +5
  • Gently variable +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • A named variable star +3
Total score 57

21 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Supergiant · +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) · +10
  • Gently variable · +4
  • A named variable star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F8Ib — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant, hundreds of times wider than the Sun.
  • It changes. This star does not hold still: its brightness rises and falls on a rhythm of hours, days or years, either pulsing in size or being eclipsed by a companion.

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 5.3 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Aquila.
  • 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 July — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Properties

absmag
-3.049
bv
0.731
constellation
Aql
dist ly
1545.7629
luminosity
1444.1091
mag
5.33
name
HR 7165
spect
F8Ib
var amplitude
0.34
var designation
FF
var max
5.173
var min
5.513

About HR 7165

HR 7165 is an epic variable star. It lies about 1,545.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aql, shines at apparent magnitude 5.33 and has spectral type F8Ib.

Its spectrum reads F8Ib — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HR 7165 in the constellation Aql. At apparent magnitude 5.33, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 7165 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 7165 is an epic variable star

HR 7165 scores 57 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 21 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 8 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Yellow-white F-type star, Supergiant, Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2), Gently variable and A named variable 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.