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Uncommon variable star 23 EP

HD 2145

RA 6.3506° · Dec -46.9242° · star

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Variable star +5
  • Gently variable +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • A named variable star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2
  • Gently variable · +4
  • A named variable star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F3/F5V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • It changes. This star does not hold still: its brightness rises and falls on a rhythm of hours, days or years, either pulsing in size or being eclipsed by a companion.

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 10.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Phoenix.
  • 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 September — 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. ≈ 26.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.072
bv
0.509
constellation
Phe
dist ly
1524.0934
luminosity
12.9181
mag
10.42
name
HD 2145
spect
F3/F5V
var amplitude
0.2
var designation
BQ
var max
10.315
var min
10.515

About HD 2145

HD 2145 is an uncommon variable star. It lies about 1,524.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Phe, shines at apparent magnitude 10.42 and has spectral type F3/F5V.

Its spectrum reads F3/F5V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 2145 in the constellation Phe. At apparent magnitude 10.42, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 2145 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 2145 is an uncommon variable star

HD 2145 scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Yellow-white F-type star, Main-sequence star, Gently variable and A named variable 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.