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Epic exoplanet 61 EP

HD 219134 f

RA 348.3372° · Dec 57.1696° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
61 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Richly packed system +14
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye +12
  • Disputed — it may not be there at all +10
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 61

17 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Richly packed system · +14
  • Its star is visible to the naked eye · +12
  • Disputed — it may not be there at all · +10

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 6 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 5.6 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site.
  • 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 September — 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. ≈ 374.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

controversial
yes
diameter km
16710.622
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2015
dist ly
21.3021
eccentricity
0.148
eq temp k
522.6
host star teff
4699
insolation
12.38
mag
5.5691
mass earth
7.3
name
HD 219134 f
orbital period days
22.717
radius earth
1.31
semi major au
0.1463
spect
K3 V
sys num planets
6
sys num stars
1

About HD 219134 f

HD 219134 f is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 21.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 5.57, has spectral type K3 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 523 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 5.57, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HD 219134 f 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 HD 219134 f is an epic exoplanet

HD 219134 f scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 17 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Nearby (<25 ly), Super-Earth, Richly packed system, Its star is visible to the naked eye and Disputed — it may not be there at all — 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.