RA 287.4410° · Dec -21.0236° · star
23 more points to reach Anomaly.
Albaldah is an epic star. It lies about 509.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr, shines at apparent magnitude 2.88 and has spectral type F2II/III.
Its spectrum reads F2II/III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for Albaldah in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 2.88, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Albaldah 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.
Albaldah scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 8 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, Toward the galactic centre, 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.