Your Eyes In Space Open the simulation

Star · F3V

HIP 32500

HIP 32500 is a main-sequence star of spectral type F3V in the constellation Octans, 126.4 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationOctans
Distance126.4 light-years (38.7 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 6.46
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 3.52
Spectral typeF3V
Surface temperature6,730 K
Luminosity3.33 L☉
Radius1.34 R☉
Mass1.35 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)6h 46m 58.3s
Declination (J2000)−87° 01′ 30″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)4.1 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.46). Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 3° N. South of latitude 3° S it never sets.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1900. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.2 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 32500, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 7.77, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Ursa Minor. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

Neighbours

Its nearest neighbours in the catalogue (within 20 light-years):

  • HIP 64109 12.1 light-years
  • HIP 3053 12.7 light-years
  • HIP 14223 16.0 light-years
  • HIP 22646 17.3 light-years
  • TOI-1224 18.5 light-years
  • Ceibo 19.5 light-years
  • HIP 117066 20.0 light-years

Open in the simulation

Position, brightness and colour from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue; temperature, luminosity, radius and mass are approximate values computed from these observations.