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Trash star 6 EP

HR 6645

RA 267.8018° · Dec -30.5596° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
6 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
Total score 6

9 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • On the zodiac · +3

Trivia

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 8.1 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.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 13.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 7692 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.

Properties

absmag
1.227
bv
0.146
constellation
Sco
dist ly
769.236
luminosity
28.132
mag
8.09
name
HR 6645

About HR 6645

HR 6645 is a trash star. It lies about 769.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco and shines at apparent magnitude 8.09.

Its colour puts the surface at roughly 8610 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

How to see it

Look for HR 6645 in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 8.09, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HR 6645 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 6645 is a trash star

HR 6645 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and On the zodiac — 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.