RA 289.1757° · Dec 63.9715° · openngc
7 more points to reach Epic.
NGC 6789 is a rare galaxy. It sits in the constellation Dra and shines at apparent magnitude 13.54.
A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.
Look for NGC 6789 in the constellation Dra. At apparent magnitude 13.54, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, NGC 6789 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.
NGC 6789 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 — Galaxy, Irregular galaxy (no shape at all), Never sets (northern circumpolar), Coming towards us and Faint fuzzy (mag > 13) — 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.