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Uncommon star 33 EP

HD 7526

RA 18.6350° · Dec -48.2521° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
33 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Carbon star (sooty red) +24
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 33

1 more point to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Carbon star (sooty red) · +24

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads C — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

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 10.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Phoenix.
  • 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 October — 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. ≈ 19.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.7 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
2.412
bv
1.32
constellation
Phe
dist ly
1109.3743
luminosity
9.445
mag
10.07
name
HD 7526
spect
C

About HD 7526

HD 7526 is an uncommon star. It lies about 1,109.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Phe, shines at apparent magnitude 10.07 and has spectral type C.

Its spectrum reads C — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

How to see it

Look for HD 7526 in the constellation Phe. At apparent magnitude 10.07, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 7526 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 7526 is an uncommon star

HD 7526 scores 33 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) and Carbon star (sooty red) — 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.