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Trash star 14 EP

HD 140111

RA 236.2507° · Dec -59.1239° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Giant star +6
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A2/A3III — 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 Norma.
  • 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. ≈ 656.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
2.019
bv
0.188
constellation
Nor
dist ly
420.3042
luminosity
13.5644
mag
7.57
name
HD 140111
spect
A2/A3III

About HD 140111

HD 140111 is a trash star. It lies about 420.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Nor, shines at apparent magnitude 7.57 and has spectral type A2/A3III.

Its spectrum reads A2/A3III — 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 140111 in the constellation Nor. At apparent magnitude 7.57, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 140111 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 140111 is a trash star

HD 140111 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, White A-type star and Giant 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.