Trash star 14 EP

HD 11959

RA 29.9311° · Dec 63.3142° · star

Loading sky survey…

🌌 View in 3D star map

Tonight’s visibility

Computing the sky for your location…

Score breakdown

· 4 badges

14 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

White A-type star +5
Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
Star +3
Main-sequence star +2

Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
White A-type star · +5
Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A3V — 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 on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

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 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Cassiopeia.
Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — 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. ≈ 15.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag: 1.889
bv: 0.23
constellation: Cas
dist ly: 858.3053
luminosity: 15.2897
mag: 8.99
name: HD 11959
spect: A3V

Nearby objects

About HD 11959

HD 11959 is a trash star. It lies about 858.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cas, shines at apparent magnitude 8.99 and has spectral type A3V.

Its spectrum reads A3V — 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 11959 in the constellation Cas. At apparent magnitude 8.99, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 11959 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 11959 is a trash star

HD 11959 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 4 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar), White A-type star and Main-sequence 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.