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Rare exoplanet 43 EP

HD 7199 b

RA 17.6979° · Dec -66.1887° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
43 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • In the habitable zone +30
  • Orbits a Sun-like star +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 43

7 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • In the habitable zone · +30
  • Orbits a Sun-like star · +8

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.

What it actually is

  • What the zone means. The habitable zone is only about temperature: it is the band where liquid water could survive on a surface. It is a promising address, not evidence of anything living.

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 8.1 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — 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. ≈ 2.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

discovery facility
La Silla Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2011
dist ly
117.9155
eccentricity
0.19
eq temp k
218.73
habitable zone
yes
host star teff
5371
inclination
1.496
insolation
0.3785
mag
8.06
mass earth
3639.1353
name
HD 7199 b
orbital period days
615
semi major au
1.36
spect
K1 IV
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 7199 b

HD 7199 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 117.9 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.06, has spectral type K1 IV and has an equilibrium temperature near 219 K.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist on a surface here.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 8.06, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 7199 b 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 7199 b is a rare exoplanet

HD 7199 b scores 43 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone 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.