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Rare star 43 EP

HR 7456

RA 294.2185° · Dec 11.2732° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
43 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Supergiant +18
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 43

7 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant, hundreds of times wider 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 6 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.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 21.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-1.871
bv
0.881
constellation
Aql
dist ly
1212.4758
luminosity
487.9777
mag
5.98
name
HR 7456
spect
G0Ib

About HR 7456

HR 7456 is a rare star. It lies about 1,212.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aql, shines at apparent magnitude 5.98 and has spectral type G0Ib.

Its spectrum reads G0Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HR 7456 in the constellation Aql. At apparent magnitude 5.98, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 7456 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 7456 is a rare star

HR 7456 scores 43 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Sun-like G-type star and Supergiant — 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.