RA 12.2912° · Dec 5.3886° · star
24 more points to reach Anomaly.
Van Maanen's Star is an epic star. It lies about 13.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 12.37 and has spectral type DG.
Its spectrum reads DG — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.
Look for Van Maanen's Star in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 12.37, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, Van Maanen's Star 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.
Van Maanen's Star scores 54 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 24 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 ly), Has a proper name, On the zodiac, White dwarf (a burnt-out core) and Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) — 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.