About HD 195286
HD 195286 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Ind, shines at apparent magnitude 7.99 and has spectral type F3V.
Its spectrum reads F3V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Trash star 8 EP
HD 195286
RA 308.0390° · Dec -45.3554° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- Yellow-white F-type star +3
- Main-sequence star +2
Total score 8
7 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Yellow-white F-type star · +3
- Main-sequence star · +2
Trivia
What it actually is
- Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F3V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
- Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Indus.
- 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 July — that's when to go looking.
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
- -12.01
- constellation
- Ind
- luminosity
- 5546257.1296
- mag
- 7.99
- name
- HD 195286
- spect
- F3V
How to see it
Look for HD 195286 in the constellation Ind. At apparent magnitude 7.99, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 195286 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 195286 is a trash star
HD 195286 scores 8 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Yellow-white F-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.