Common star 20 EP

HD 76614

RA 133.2046° · Dec -69.8306° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

20 pts · Common

Common 22 pts → Uncommon

Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
Giant star +6
White A-type star +5
Star +3

Total score 20

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Star · +3
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
White A-type star · +5
Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A0III/IVp.. — 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.
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 7.4 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Volans.
Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around February — 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. ≈ 28.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag: -1.012
bv: 0.007
constellation: Vol
dist ly: 1598.804
luminosity: 221.2076
mag: 7.44
name: HD 76614
spect: A0III/IVp..

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About HD 76614

HD 76614 is a common star. It lies about 1,598.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vol, shines at apparent magnitude 7.44 and has spectral type A0III/IVp...

Its spectrum reads A0III/IVp.. — 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 HD 76614 in the constellation Vol. At apparent magnitude 7.44, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 76614 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 76614 is a common star

HD 76614 scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), White A-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.