RA 28.2704° · Dec 29.5788° · star
16 more points to reach Epic.
Mothallah is a rare variable star. It lies about 63.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tri, shines at apparent magnitude 3.42 and has spectral type F6IV.
Its spectrum reads F6IV — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for Mothallah in the constellation Tri. At apparent magnitude 3.42, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Mothallah 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.
Mothallah scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, Yellow-white F-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) and A named variable 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.