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Trash star 11 EP

HD 181211

RA 289.6573° · Dec 23.8564° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) +5
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F2IV-Vws — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a subgiant, caught in the act of leaving the main sequence as the hydrogen in its core runs out.

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 8.6 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Vulpecula.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — 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. ≈ 8.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.678
bv
0.391
constellation
Vul
dist ly
494.1759
luminosity
7.3926
mag
8.58
name
HD 181211
spect
F2IV-Vws

Nearby objects

About HD 181211

HD 181211 is a trash star. It lies about 494.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vul, shines at apparent magnitude 8.58 and has spectral type F2IV-Vws.

Its spectrum reads F2IV-Vws — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 181211 in the constellation Vul. At apparent magnitude 8.58, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 181211 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 181211 is a trash star

HD 181211 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, 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.