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Trash star 14 EP

HD 208275

RA 328.5428° · Dec 39.8772° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • White A-type star · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A5... — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.

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 9.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Cygnus.
  • 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 August — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 56.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
-0.708
bv
0.261
constellation
Cyg
dist ly
3229.2673
luminosity
167.186
mag
9.27
name
HD 208275
spect
A5...

About HD 208275

HD 208275 is a trash star. It lies about 3,229.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cyg, shines at apparent magnitude 9.27 and has spectral type A5....

Its spectrum reads A5... — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.

How to see it

Look for HD 208275 in the constellation Cyg. At apparent magnitude 9.27, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 208275 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 208275 is a trash star

HD 208275 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) and White A-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.