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Trash star 10 EP

59 And

RA 32.7236° · Dec 39.0433° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
10 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 10

5 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A1Vn — 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.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 6.8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Andromeda.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north 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 brilliant white (B−V 0.1) — hotter and whiter than the Sun, the colour of Sirius or Vega.
  • 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 9220 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

Properties

absmag
-13.18
bv
0.081
constellation
And
luminosity
16292960.3264
mag
6.82
name
59 And
spect
A1Vn

About 59 And

59 And is a trash star. It sits in the constellation And, shines at apparent magnitude 6.82 and has spectral type A1Vn.

Its spectrum reads A1Vn — 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 59 And in the constellation And. At apparent magnitude 6.82, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, 59 And 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 59 And is a trash star

59 And scores 10 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, 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.