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Trash star 11 EP

HD 131909

RA 225.0160° · Dec -67.3715° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Hot blue B-type star +6
  • Star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Hot blue B-type star · +6
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads B8V: — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
  • Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

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 10.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, 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 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. ≈ 15.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
3.123
bv
0.156
constellation
Cir
dist ly
876.7634
luminosity
4.9068
mag
10.27
name
HD 131909
spect
B8V:

About HD 131909

HD 131909 is a trash star. It lies about 876.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cir, shines at apparent magnitude 10.27 and has spectral type B8V:.

Its spectrum reads B8V: — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.

How to see it

Look for HD 131909 in the constellation Cir. At apparent magnitude 10.27, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 131909 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 131909 is a trash star

HD 131909 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Hot blue B-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.