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Trash star 11 EP

HD 146349

RA 245.0020° · Dec -64.6488° · 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 B9/B9.5V — 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.

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 6.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Triangulum Australe.
  • 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. ≈ 7.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 644.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.188
bv
0
constellation
TrA
dist ly
412.8558
luminosity
29.1608
mag
6.7
name
HD 146349
spect
B9/B9.5V

About HD 146349

HD 146349 is a trash star. It lies about 412.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation TrA, shines at apparent magnitude 6.7 and has spectral type B9/B9.5V.

Its spectrum reads B9/B9.5V — 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 146349 in the constellation TrA. At apparent magnitude 6.7, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 146349 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 146349 is a trash star

HD 146349 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.