About HD 153157
HD 153157 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Sco, shines at apparent magnitude 7.88 and has spectral type F5/F6IV.
Its spectrum reads F5/F6IV — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Trash star 14 EP
HD 153157
RA 254.8981° · Dec -41.2857° · star
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) +5
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
- Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
- Yellow-white F-type star · +3
- Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) · +5
Trivia
What it actually is
- Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F5/F6IV — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 7.9 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 June — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out yellow (B−V 0.6) — almost exactly the Sun's own shade — a stellar twin in colour, if not in size.
- Why no green stars. No star ever looks green: a surface hot enough to peak in green also floods out plenty of red and blue, and your eye blends the mixture back to white.
By the numbers
- Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 6040 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
What's in a name
- Its catalogue. The HD number is from the Henry Draper Catalogue, in which Annie Jump Cannon personally classified the spectra of nearly 400,000 stars — still the largest such feat by one person.
Properties
- absmag
- -12.12
- bv
- 0.581
- constellation
- Sco
- luminosity
- 6137620.0516
- mag
- 7.88
- name
- HD 153157
- spect
- F5/F6IV
How to see it
Look for HD 153157 in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 7.88, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 153157 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 153157 is a trash star
HD 153157 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, Yellow-white F-type star and Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) — 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.