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Trash star 14 EP

HD 2597

RA 7.3284° · Dec -45.6771° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Giant star +6
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Giant star · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A2III — 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.
  • Where it is in life. It is a giant. It has already exhausted its core hydrogen and swollen up enormously in response.

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 8.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 9.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.706
bv
0.267
constellation
Phe
dist ly
520.1849
luminosity
7.2044
mag
8.72
name
HD 2597
spect
A2III

About HD 2597

HD 2597 is a trash star. It lies about 520.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Phe, shines at apparent magnitude 8.72 and has spectral type A2III.

Its spectrum reads A2III — 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 2597 in the constellation Phe. At apparent magnitude 8.72, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 2597 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 2597 is a trash star

HD 2597 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, White A-type star and Giant 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.