RA 256.3307° · Dec 54.4691° · star
16 more points to reach Epic.
Alrakis is a rare star. It lies about 75.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Dra, shines at apparent magnitude 5.63 and has spectral type F7 V.
It is a binary: two stars orbiting a shared centre of mass. More than half of all the 'stars' you can see are actually multiple systems.
Look for Alrakis in the constellation Dra. At apparent magnitude 5.63, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Alrakis 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.
Alrakis scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Binary star, Has a proper name, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence star — 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.