RA 37.9462° · Dec 89.2641° · star
35 more points to reach Mythic.
Polaris is an anomaly variable star. It lies about 432.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMi, shines at apparent magnitude 1.97 and has spectral type F7:Ib-IIv SB.
Its spectrum reads F7:Ib-IIv SB — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for Polaris in the constellation UMi. At apparent magnitude 1.97, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Polaris 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.
Polaris scores 85 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 35 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 10 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Yellow-white F-type star, Supergiant, Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) and Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) — 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.