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Uncommon star 29 EP

HD 199435

RA 316.0985° · Dec -77.5453° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
29 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Supergiant +18
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 29

5 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G8Ib/II — 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 8.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Octans.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 12.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
1.608
bv
1.1
constellation
Oct
dist ly
704.4405
luminosity
19.8061
mag
8.28
name
HD 199435
spect
G8Ib/II

About HD 199435

HD 199435 is an uncommon star. It lies about 704.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Oct, shines at apparent magnitude 8.28 and has spectral type G8Ib/II.

Its spectrum reads G8Ib/II — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 199435 in the constellation Oct. At apparent magnitude 8.28, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 199435 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 199435 is an uncommon star

HD 199435 scores 29 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, 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.