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Uncommon star 23 EP

65 Psc

RA 12.4715° · Dec 27.7103° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Giant star +6
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F5III+... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a giant. It has already exhausted its core hydrogen and swollen up enormously in response.

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 5.5 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Pisces.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — 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. ≈ 5.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
0.813
bv
0.398
constellation
Psc
dist ly
288.8894
luminosity
41.1908
mag
5.55
name
65 Psc
spect
F5III+...

About 65 Psc

65 Psc is an uncommon star. It lies about 288.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 5.55 and has spectral type F5III+....

Its spectrum reads F5III+... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for 65 Psc in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 5.55, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 65 Psc 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 65 Psc is an uncommon star

65 Psc scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star and Giant 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.