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Uncommon star 28 EP

HD 64318

RA 117.8082° · Dec -47.2164° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
28 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Giant star +6
  • Blue-white star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 28

6 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Giant star · +6
  • Blue-white star · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G3III — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own 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 6.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Puppis.
  • 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 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. ≈ 28.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-1.954
bv
-0.118
constellation
Pup
dist ly
1622.6665
luminosity
526.7445
mag
6.53
name
HD 64318
spect
G3III

About HD 64318

HD 64318 is an uncommon star. It lies about 1,622.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pup, shines at apparent magnitude 6.53 and has spectral type G3III.

Its spectrum reads G3III — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 64318 in the constellation Pup. At apparent magnitude 6.53, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 64318 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 64318 is an uncommon star

HD 64318 scores 28 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-type star, Giant star and Blue-white 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.