About TOI-4600 c
TOI-4600 c is a common exoplanet. It lies about 704.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 12.58, has spectral type K V and has an equilibrium temperature near 191 K.
One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Common exoplanet 19 EP
TOI-4600 c
RA 258.4504° · Dec 64.5662° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
- Found by TESS +4
Total score 19
3 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by TESS · +4
Trivia
What it actually is
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
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 12.6 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
- Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around June — 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).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
Properties
- diameter km
- 120163.404
- discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- discovery method
- Transit
- discovery year
- 2023
- dist ly
- 704.6796
- eccentricity
- 0.21
- eq temp k
- 191
- host star teff
- 5170
- inclination
- 89.9
- insolation
- 48.3867
- mag
- 12.577
- mass earth
- 2946.2693
- name
- TOI-4600 c
- orbital period days
- 482.8191
- radius earth
- 9.42
- semi major au
- 1.152
- spect
- K V
- sys num planets
- 2
- sys num stars
- 1
How to see it
At apparent magnitude 12.58, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, TOI-4600 c 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 TOI-4600 c is a common exoplanet
TOI-4600 c scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Multi-planet system and Found by TESS — 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.