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Common star 20 EP

HD 26074

RA 61.3920° · Dec -45.6667° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
20 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Bright giant +12
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 20

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Bright giant · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A7II/III — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
  • Where it is in life. It is a bright giant, well on its way to the largest stars there are.

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 7.6 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Horologium.
  • 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 November — 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. ≈ 13.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
0.697
bv
0.239
constellation
Hor
dist ly
772.8814
luminosity
45.8353
mag
7.57
name
HD 26074
spect
A7II/III

About HD 26074

HD 26074 is a common star. It lies about 772.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Hor, shines at apparent magnitude 7.57 and has spectral type A7II/III.

Its spectrum reads A7II/III — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.

How to see it

Look for HD 26074 in the constellation Hor. At apparent magnitude 7.57, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 26074 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 26074 is a common star

HD 26074 scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, White A-type star and Bright giant — 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.