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Uncommon star 25 EP

HD 148024

RA 246.7938° · Dec -42.4681° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Deep red star +8
  • Giant star +6
  • Star +3
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Giant star · +6
  • Deep red star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G6III — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own 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 8.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Norma.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — 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. ≈ 12.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.295
bv
1.473
constellation
Nor
dist ly
692.4755
luminosity
10.5196
mag
8.93
name
HD 148024
spect
G6III

About HD 148024

HD 148024 is an uncommon star. It lies about 692.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Nor, shines at apparent magnitude 8.93 and has spectral type G6III.

Its spectrum reads G6III — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 148024 in the constellation Nor. At apparent magnitude 8.93, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 148024 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 148024 is an uncommon star

HD 148024 scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Sun-like G-type star, Giant star and Deep red 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.