About Elara
Elara is an uncommon moon.
It orbits about 5.2 AU from the Sun — roughly 5.2 times Earth's distance.
Uncommon moon 24 EP
Elara
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Live ephemeris
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Score breakdown
· 2 badgesUncommon 34 pts → Rare
- Moon +16
- Has a proper name +8
Total score 24
10 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Moon · +16
- Has a proper name · +8
Trivia
What it actually is
- Its address. It orbits about 5.2 AU from the Sun — roughly 5.2 times Earth's distance.
- Around its planet. It circles its planet at a distance of 11.7 million km — roughly 30.5 times the Earth–Moon gap — coming right round once every 8.5 months.
Sense of scale
- Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 23.2 thousand km² — roughly 14.8 times the area of Greater London.
- Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 6.8 days.
Time and light
- Sunrise is late. Sunlight takes about 43.3 minutes to get there, against eight minutes to reach us.
Standing on it
- Sunlight there. Sunlight is about 27.1 times weaker there than at Earth.
- A year here. It rides around the Sun with its planet, one full lap every 11.9 Earth years.
By the numbers
- Size. About 86 km across — about 4× the length of Manhattan island.
Properties
- color
- #7d7368
- diameter km
- 86
- name
- Elara
- named
- yes
- radius km
- 43
- tidally locked
- no
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Elara 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. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Elara is an uncommon moon
Elara 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 2 science badges — Moon and Has a proper name — 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.