RA 65.2418° · Dec -81.5799° · star
2 more points to reach Uncommon.
Nu Men is a common star. It lies about 169.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Men, shines at apparent magnitude 5.78 and has spectral type F0/F2III.
Its spectrum reads F0/F2III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for Nu Men in the constellation Men. At apparent magnitude 5.78, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Nu Men 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.
Nu Men scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Yellow-white F-type star and Giant 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.