About Kepler-93 c
Kepler-93 c is a common exoplanet. It lies about 312.8 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10, weighs about 954 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 1,460 days.
One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Common exoplanet 19 EP
Kepler-93 c
RA 291.4181° · Dec 38.6723° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Orbits a Sun-like star +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 19
3 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Orbits a Sun-like star · +8
Trivia
What it actually is
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
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 10 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
- 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 July — 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. ≈ 5.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 488.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
Properties
- discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- discovery year
- 2014
- dist ly
- 312.8211
- host star teff
- 5669
- mag
- 9.996
- mass earth
- 954
- name
- Kepler-93 c
- orbital period days
- 1460
- sys num planets
- 2
- sys num stars
- 1
Nearby objects
- Epic Kepler-93 b exoplanet · <0.1° away
- Uncommon Kepler-1914 b exoplanet · <0.1° away
- Rare Kepler-1600 c exoplanet · 0.1° away
- Epic Kepler-1600 b exoplanet · 0.1° away
- Rare Kepler-1689 b exoplanet · 0.1° away
- Trash HD 183078 star · 0.2° away
- Trash HD 182806 star · 0.2° away
- Rare Kepler-787 b exoplanet · 0.2° away
How to see it
At apparent magnitude 10, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, Kepler-93 c 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 Kepler-93 c is a common exoplanet
Kepler-93 c scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Multi-planet system and Orbits a Sun-like 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.