Uncommon variable star 33 EP

HIP 34641

RA 107.6245° · Dec 63.6192° · star

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges

33 pts · Uncommon

Uncommon 34 pts → Rare

Deep red star +8
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
Variable star +5
Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
Gently variable +4
Orange K-type star +3
A named variable star +3

Total score 33

1 more point to reach Rare.

Badges

Variable star · +5
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
Orange K-type star · +3
Deep red star · +8
Gently variable · +4
A named variable star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K5 — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.
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 8.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Camelopardalis.
Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — 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. ≈ 27.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag: 0.281
bv: 1.547
constellation: Cam
dist ly: 1545.7629
luminosity: 67.2357
mag: 8.66
name: HIP 34641
spect: K5
var amplitude: 0.18
var designation: ES
var max: 8.602
var min: 8.782

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About HIP 34641

HIP 34641 is an uncommon variable star. It lies about 1,545.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cam, shines at apparent magnitude 8.66 and has spectral type K5.

Its spectrum reads K5 — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HIP 34641 in the constellation Cam. At apparent magnitude 8.66, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 34641 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 34641 is an uncommon variable star

HIP 34641 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 7 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Never sets (northern circumpolar), Orange K-type star, Deep red star, Gently variable 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.