About HD 268819
HD 268819 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Men, shines at apparent magnitude 10.07 and has spectral type F6.
Its spectrum reads F6 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Trash star 6 EP
HD 268819
RA 73.8852° · Dec -69.9625° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 6
9 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Yellow-white F-type star · +3
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 801.7 thousand 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 F6 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 10.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Mensa.
- 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 December — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out yellow-white (B−V 0.5) — a shade brighter and crisper than our own Sun.
- 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 6440 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Properties
- absmag
- -9.93
- bv
- 0.488
- constellation
- Men
- luminosity
- 816582.3714
- mag
- 10.07
- name
- HD 268819
- spect
- F6
How to see it
Look for HD 268819 in the constellation Men. At apparent magnitude 10.07, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HD 268819 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 268819 is a trash star
HD 268819 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Yellow-white F-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.