RA 30.9748° · Dec 42.3297° · star
13 more points to reach Epic.
Almach is a rare star. It lies about 393 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation And, shines at apparent magnitude 2.1 and has spectral type B8V.
Its spectrum reads B8V — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for Almach in the constellation And. At apparent magnitude 2.1, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Almach 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.
Almach scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 13 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, Hot blue B-type star, Main-sequence star and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — 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.