← Back to dex
Common star 21 EP

Eps For

RA 45.4067° · Dec -28.0916° · star

Loading sky survey…
🌌 View in 3D star map
Tonight’s visibility

Computing the sky for your location…

Score breakdown

· 4 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 21

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G8/K0V — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own 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 5.9 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Fornax.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — 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. ≈ 1.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 164 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.341
bv
0.794
constellation
For
dist ly
105.0085
luminosity
4.0142
mag
5.88
name
Eps For
spect
G8/K0V

About Eps For

Eps For is a common star. It lies about 105 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation For, shines at apparent magnitude 5.88 and has spectral type G8/K0V.

Its spectrum reads G8/K0V — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for Eps For in the constellation For. At apparent magnitude 5.88, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, Eps For 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 Eps For is a common star

Eps For scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Sun-like G-type star and Main-sequence 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.