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Uncommon star 24 EP

HD 199290

RA 313.6084° · Dec 48.9298° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
24 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Supergiant +18
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 24

10 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F2Ib — 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.

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 Cygnus.
  • 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 August — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 9.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
1.933
bv
0.253
constellation
Cyg
dist ly
521.0159
luminosity
14.6825
mag
7.95
name
HD 199290
spect
F2Ib

About HD 199290

HD 199290 is an uncommon star. It lies about 521 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cyg, shines at apparent magnitude 7.95 and has spectral type F2Ib.

Its spectrum reads F2Ib — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 199290 in the constellation Cyg. At apparent magnitude 7.95, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 199290 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 199290 is an uncommon star

HD 199290 scores 24 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, 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.