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Trash star 14 EP

HD 147196

RA 245.3300° · Dec -23.7080° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Hot blue B-type star +6
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

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

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads B6/B7Vn — 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 7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Scorpius.
  • 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. ≈ 8.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 767 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.151
bv
0.137
constellation
Sco
dist ly
491.1988
luminosity
30.1717
mag
7.04
name
HD 147196
spect
B6/B7Vn

About HD 147196

HD 147196 is a trash star. It lies about 491.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco, shines at apparent magnitude 7.04 and has spectral type B6/B7Vn.

Its spectrum reads B6/B7Vn — 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 147196 in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 7.04, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 147196 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 147196 is a trash star

HD 147196 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 4 science badges — Star, On the zodiac, 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.