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Trash star 13 EP

HD 187914

RA 299.3300° · Dec -68.2924° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G3/G5V — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

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 9.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Pavo.
  • 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 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. ≈ 6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 531.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
4.637
bv
0.6
constellation
Pav
dist ly
340.455
luminosity
1.2167
mag
9.73
name
HD 187914
spect
G3/G5V

About HD 187914

HD 187914 is a trash star. It lies about 340.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pav, shines at apparent magnitude 9.73 and has spectral type G3/G5V.

Its spectrum reads G3/G5V — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 187914 in the constellation Pav. At apparent magnitude 9.73, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 187914 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 187914 is a trash star

HD 187914 scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Sun-like G-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.