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Trash star 11 EP

HD 3472

RA 9.2286° · Dec -64.8669° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G0w... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

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 9.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Tucana.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 7.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 705.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
4.073
bv
0.497
constellation
Tuc
dist ly
451.7398
luminosity
2.0455
mag
9.78
name
HD 3472
spect
G0w...

About HD 3472

HD 3472 is a trash star. It lies about 451.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tuc, shines at apparent magnitude 9.78 and has spectral type G0w....

Its spectrum reads G0w... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 3472 in the constellation Tuc. At apparent magnitude 9.78, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 3472 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 3472 is a trash star

HD 3472 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Sun-like G-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.