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Rare star 34 EP

HD 91824

RA 158.6943° · Dec -58.1561° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
34 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Blazing O-type star +26
  • Blue-white star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 34

16 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Blazing O-type star · +26
  • Blue-white star · +5

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 4.9 million times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads O7 — an O-type star — the hottest, rarest main class there is. Fewer than one star in a million is an O, and none of them lasts long.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 8.1 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Carina.
  • 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.

Its true colour

  • Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out blue-white (B−V -0) — the hallmark of a surface far hotter than the Sun's.
  • Why no green stars. No star ever looks green: a surface hot enough to peak in green also floods out plenty of red and blue, and your eye blends the mixture back to white.

By the numbers

  • Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 10630 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

Properties

absmag
-11.89
bv
-0.038
constellation
Car
luminosity
4965923.2145
mag
8.11
name
HD 91824
spect
O7

About HD 91824

HD 91824 is a rare star. It sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 8.11 and has spectral type O7.

Its spectrum reads O7 — an O-type star — the hottest, rarest main class there is. Fewer than one star in a million is an O, and none of them lasts long.

How to see it

Look for HD 91824 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 8.11, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 91824 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 91824 is a rare star

HD 91824 scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Blazing O-type 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.