Star profile

32 Vulpecula

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is 32 Vulpecula

32 Vulpeculae glows orange 583 light-years away, a K-type giant in the small constellation of the Little Fox, just south of the Swan. It belongs to that modest corner of the northern summer sky where the Milky Way thickens with dense star-fields. The light reaching us tonight set out when Cervantes was finishing the first part of Don Quixote, with the Thirty Years War still unforeseen.

Where it is and when to see it

32 Vulpecula lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 67° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 77° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 28° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 62° S.

It ranks no. 12 in brightness among the 44 stars of Vulpecula in our catalogue. To find it, start from Anser, the brightest: it lies about 20° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 580 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 32 Vulpecula

Constellation: Vulpecula
Apparent magnitude: 5.03
Distance: 582.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 313.640° · Dec 28.058°
Catalogue: HIP 103200 · HD 199169

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Other stars in Vulpecula

Vulpecula has 44 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 44 stars in Vulpecula