PSR J0024-7204aa

NEUTRON STARMillisecond pulsar

ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIOD 1.84 MS

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OVERVIEW

] NEUTRON STAR

PSR J0024-7204aa is a in the constellation Tucana, 14 058 from Earth.

WHAT IT IS
Millisecond pulsar
HOW FAR
14 058

The light arriving now left it that long ago.

WHERE TO LOOK
Tucana

The patch of sky it sits in, as seen from Earth.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see PSR J0024-7204aa for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

TONIGHT

Say where you are, and this line says when PSR J0024-7204aa is worth going out for.

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APPARENT PLACE

] EQUINOX J2026.7

Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.

RIGHT ASCENSION
DECLINATION
GRID TURNED SINCE
10.5
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-09-03 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for PSR J0024-7204aa, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.

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CATALOG DATA

] 3 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Spin period
0.00184

WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES

Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.

Dispersion measure
24.92 pc/cm³

OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS

The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.

Associated with
GC:47Tuc(NGC104),XRS:[bhc+17]
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS
  • ATNF J0024-7204aa
  • ATNF PSR J0024-7204aa
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. PSR J0024-7204aa [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j0024m7204aa
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_psr-j0024m7204aa,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{PSR J0024-7204aa}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j0024m7204aa},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (Manchester+ 2005).}
}

The values above were taken from ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (Manchester+ 2005) — Free to use with attribution; cite Manchester+ 2005 (2005AJ....129.1993M). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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