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Uncommon star 26 EP

HR 3643

RA 136.2868° · Dec -72.6027° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
26 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Bright giant +12
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 26

8 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Bright giant · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F6II-III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a bright giant, well on its way to the largest stars there are.

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 4.5 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Carina.
  • 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-0.977
bv
0.607
constellation
Car
dist ly
400.683
luminosity
214.1904
mag
4.47
name
HR 3643
spect
F6II-III

About HR 3643

HR 3643 is an uncommon star. It lies about 400.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 4.47 and has spectral type F6II-III.

Its spectrum reads F6II-III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HR 3643 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 4.47, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 3643 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 3643 is an uncommon star

HR 3643 scores 26 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Yellow-white F-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.