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Common star 16 EP

HD 96093

RA 166.4852° · Dec 59.8357° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
16 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Giant star +6
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 16

6 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F5III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a giant. It has already exhausted its core hydrogen and swollen up enormously in response.

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 9.2 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Ursa Major.
  • 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 March — 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. ≈ 14.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.167
bv
0.483
constellation
UMa
dist ly
847.1586
luminosity
11.8359
mag
9.24
name
HD 96093
spect
F5III

About HD 96093

HD 96093 is a common star. It lies about 847.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMa, shines at apparent magnitude 9.24 and has spectral type F5III.

Its spectrum reads F5III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 96093 in the constellation UMa. At apparent magnitude 9.24, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 96093 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 96093 is a common star

HD 96093 scores 16 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar), 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.