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Rare star 35 EP

HD 124198

RA 213.8381° · Dec -70.4171° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Supergiant +18
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G8/K0Ib/II — 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 8.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Circinus.
  • 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 April — 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. ≈ 22.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
0.553
bv
1.097
constellation
Cir
dist ly
1279.0433
luminosity
52.3359
mag
8.52
name
HD 124198
spect
G8/K0Ib/II

About HD 124198

HD 124198 is a rare star. It lies about 1,279 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cir, shines at apparent magnitude 8.52 and has spectral type G8/K0Ib/II.

Its spectrum reads G8/K0Ib/II — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 124198 in the constellation Cir. At apparent magnitude 8.52, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 124198 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 124198 is a rare star

HD 124198 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-type star and Supergiant — 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.