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Uncommon star 23 EP

HD 213036

RA 336.8880° · Dec 51.9766° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Giant star +6
  • Star +3
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0IIIp — 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 7.8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Lacerta.
  • 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 August — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 35.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-1.136
bv
0.9
constellation
Lac
dist ly
2025.8136
luminosity
247.9705
mag
7.83
name
HD 213036
spect
G0IIIp

About HD 213036

HD 213036 is an uncommon star. It lies about 2,025.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Lac, shines at apparent magnitude 7.83 and has spectral type G0IIIp.

Its spectrum reads G0IIIp — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 213036 in the constellation Lac. At apparent magnitude 7.83, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 213036 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 213036 is an uncommon star

HD 213036 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, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-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.