About HD 5426
HD 5426 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Scl, shines at apparent magnitude 9.62 and has spectral type G(wp).
Its spectrum reads G(wp) — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Trash star 11 EP
HD 5426
RA 13.9210° · Dec -33.7532° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 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
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 1.2 million times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.
What it actually is
- Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G(wp) — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 9.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Sculptor.
- 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 October — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out yellow (B−V 0.7) — almost exactly the Sun's own shade — a stellar twin in colour, if not in size.
- Why no green stars. No star ever looks green: a surface hot enough to peak in green also floods out plenty of red and blue, and your eye blends the mixture back to white.
By the numbers
- Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 5520 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Properties
- absmag
- -10.38
- bv
- 0.724
- constellation
- Scl
- luminosity
- 1235947.4334
- mag
- 9.62
- name
- HD 5426
- spect
- G(wp)
How to see it
Look for HD 5426 in the constellation Scl. At apparent magnitude 9.62, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HD 5426 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 5426 is a trash star
HD 5426 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.