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Common star 17 EP

HIP 32187

RA 100.8020° · Dec -8.7584° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
17 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Deep red star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 17

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Deep red star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads N0 — 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 9.9 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Monoceros.
  • 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 43.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.8 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
0.529
bv
3.1
constellation
Mon
dist ly
2452.3008
luminosity
53.5057
mag
9.91
name
HIP 32187
spect
N0

About HIP 32187

HIP 32187 is a common star. It lies about 2,452.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Mon, shines at apparent magnitude 9.91 and has spectral type N0.

Its spectrum reads N0 — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

How to see it

Look for HIP 32187 in the constellation Mon. At apparent magnitude 9.91, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 32187 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 HIP 32187 is a common star

HIP 32187 scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

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