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Uncommon star 30 EP

HD 193205

RA 304.5576° · Dec 24.5014° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
30 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Supergiant +18
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 30

4 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F6Iab — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant. Drop it where the Sun is and its surface would engulf the inner planets.

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 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Vulpecula.
  • 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. ≈ 42.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-1.348
bv
0.854
constellation
Vul
dist ly
2415.9702
luminosity
301.4394
mag
8
name
HD 193205
spect
F6Iab

About HD 193205

HD 193205 is an uncommon star. It lies about 2,416 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vul, shines at apparent magnitude 8 and has spectral type F6Iab.

Its spectrum reads F6Iab — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 193205 in the constellation Vul. At apparent magnitude 8, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 193205 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 193205 is an uncommon star

HD 193205 scores 30 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Yellow-white F-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.