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Uncommon star 23 EP

Násti

RA 124.5920° · Dec 61.4607° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Has a proper name · +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0 — 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 8.2 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Ursa Major.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — 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. ≈ 3.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 277.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
4.517
bv
0.652
constellation
UMa
dist ly
177.8385
luminosity
1.3589
mag
8.2
name
Násti
named
yes
spect
G0

About Násti

Násti is an uncommon star. It lies about 177.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMa, shines at apparent magnitude 8.2 and has spectral type G0.

Its spectrum reads G0 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for Násti in the constellation UMa. At apparent magnitude 8.2, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, Násti 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 Násti is an uncommon star

Násti scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Has a proper name, Never sets (northern circumpolar) and Sun-like G-type 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.