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Rare star 37 EP

HR 3583

RA 134.4815° · Dec -48.5729° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
37 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Bright giant +12
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 37

13 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Bright giant · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G8/K0II — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

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 5.9 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Vela.
  • 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 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. ≈ 18.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
-1.628
bv
1.06
constellation
Vel
dist ly
1035.4158
luminosity
390.1216
mag
5.88
name
HR 3583
spect
G8/K0II

About HR 3583

HR 3583 is a rare star. It lies about 1,035.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vel, shines at apparent magnitude 5.88 and has spectral type G8/K0II.

Its spectrum reads G8/K0II — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HR 3583 in the constellation Vel. At apparent magnitude 5.88, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 3583 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 HR 3583 is a rare star

HR 3583 scores 37 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 13 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Sun-like G-type star and Bright giant — 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.