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Trash star 13 EP

HD 129908

RA 221.4346° · Dec -22.4104° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A1/A2V — 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. 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 7.6 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Libra.
  • 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 May — 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. ≈ 7.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 653.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
2.088
bv
0.153
constellation
Lib
dist ly
418.6855
luminosity
12.7292
mag
7.63
name
HD 129908
spect
A1/A2V

About HD 129908

HD 129908 is a trash star. It lies about 418.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Lib, shines at apparent magnitude 7.63 and has spectral type A1/A2V.

Its spectrum reads A1/A2V — 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 HD 129908 in the constellation Lib. At apparent magnitude 7.63, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 129908 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 129908 is a trash star

HD 129908 scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, On the zodiac, White A-type star and Main-sequence 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.