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Trash star 14 EP

HR 6014

RA 242.2967° · Dec 6.3787° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
  • Orange K-type star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Orange K-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K1+... — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 5.9 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Serpens.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • 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. ≈ 1.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 144.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.67
bv
0.988
constellation
Ser
dist ly
92.3432
luminosity
2.9648
mag
5.93
name
HR 6014
spect
K1+...

About HR 6014

HR 6014 is a trash star. It lies about 92.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ser, shines at apparent magnitude 5.93 and has spectral type K1+....

Its spectrum reads K1+... — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HR 6014 in the constellation Ser. At apparent magnitude 5.93, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 6014 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 HR 6014 is a trash star

HR 6014 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, Naked-eye visible and Orange K-type 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.