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Common star 17 EP

Bélénos

RA 21.3021° · Dec 28.5667° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
17 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 17

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Has a proper name · +8
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F8 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 7.1 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, 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. ≈ 2.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 226.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.875
bv
0.577
constellation
Psc
dist ly
145.3459
luminosity
2.4547
mag
7.12
name
Bélénos
named
yes
spect
F8

About Bélénos

Bélénos is a common star. It lies about 145.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 7.12 and has spectral type F8.

Its spectrum reads F8 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for Bélénos in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 7.12, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, Bélénos 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 Bélénos is a common star

Bélénos scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Has a proper name, On the zodiac and Yellow-white F-type 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.