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Common star 18 EP

HD 32024

RA 75.0627° · Dec -0.1938° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
18 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • In Orion's hunting ground +6
  • Giant star +6
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 18

4 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • In Orion's hunting ground · +6
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F4III — 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 8.1 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Orion.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around December — 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. ≈ 6.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.678
bv
0.411
constellation
Ori
dist ly
392.486
luminosity
7.3926
mag
8.08
name
HD 32024
spect
F4III

About HD 32024

HD 32024 is a common star. It lies about 392.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori, shines at apparent magnitude 8.08 and has spectral type F4III.

Its spectrum reads F4III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 32024 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 8.08, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 32024 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 32024 is a common star

HD 32024 scores 18 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, In Orion's hunting ground, 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.