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Rare variable star 34 EP

11 Ori

RA 76.1423° · Dec 15.4041° · star

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
34 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • In Orion's hunting ground +6
  • Variable star +5
  • White A-type star +5
  • Blue-white star +5
  • A named variable star +3
  • Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) +2
Total score 34

16 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • In Orion's hunting ground · +6
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Blue-white star · +5
  • Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) · +2
  • A named variable star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A0p Si — 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.
  • It changes. This star does not hold still: its brightness rises and falls on a rhythm of hours, days or years, either pulsing in size or being eclipsed by a companion.

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 4.7 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Orion.
  • 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 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. ≈ 6.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-0.596
bv
-0.064
constellation
Ori
dist ly
365.2363
luminosity
150.7995
mag
4.65
name
11 Ori
spect
A0p Si
var amplitude
0.03
var designation
V1032
var max
4.636
var min
4.666

About 11 Ori

11 Ori is a rare variable star. It lies about 365.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori, shines at apparent magnitude 4.65 and has spectral type A0p Si.

Its spectrum reads A0p Si — 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 11 Ori in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 4.65, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 11 Ori 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 11 Ori is a rare variable star

11 Ori scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, In Orion's hunting ground, White A-type star, Blue-white star, Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) and A named variable 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.