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Trash star 13 EP

HD 202030

RA 317.5312° · Dec 65.6863° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Hot blue B-type star +6
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Hot blue B-type star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads B9 — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.

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 7.8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Cepheus.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around August — 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. ≈ 14.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
0.732
bv
0.037
constellation
Cep
dist ly
829.9134
luminosity
44.3813
mag
7.76
name
HD 202030
spect
B9

About HD 202030

HD 202030 is a trash star. It lies about 829.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cep, shines at apparent magnitude 7.76 and has spectral type B9.

Its spectrum reads B9 — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.

How to see it

Look for HD 202030 in the constellation Cep. At apparent magnitude 7.76, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 202030 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 202030 is a trash star

HD 202030 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, Never sets (northern circumpolar) and Hot blue B-type 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.