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Common star 16 EP

HR 4167

RA 159.3258° · Dec -48.2256° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
16 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 16

6 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • White A-type star · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A3m+... — 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.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 3.8 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 136.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.696
bv
0.3
constellation
Vel
dist ly
87.5351
luminosity
18.2642
mag
3.84
name
HR 4167
spect
A3m+...

About HR 4167

HR 4167 is a common star. It lies about 87.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vel, shines at apparent magnitude 3.84 and has spectral type A3m+....

Its spectrum reads A3m+... — 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 HR 4167 in the constellation Vel. At apparent magnitude 3.84, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 4167 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 4167 is a common star

HR 4167 scores 16 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible and White A-type 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.