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Trash star 14 EP

HR 1625

RA 75.6891° · Dec -4.2101° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
  • Orange K-type star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Orange K-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K3 — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

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 5.9 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Eridanus.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around December — 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. ≈ 5.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 468.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.043
bv
1.212
constellation
Eri
dist ly
299.7759
luminosity
33.3273
mag
5.86
name
HR 1625
spect
K3

About HR 1625

HR 1625 is a trash star. It lies about 299.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Eri, shines at apparent magnitude 5.86 and has spectral type K3.

Its spectrum reads K3 — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HR 1625 in the constellation Eri. At apparent magnitude 5.86, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 1625 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 HR 1625 is a trash star

HR 1625 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 3 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible and Orange K-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.