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Trash star 14 EP

HD 32576

RA 76.1742° · Dec 14.8590° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • In Orion's hunting ground +6
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • In Orion's hunting ground · +6
  • White A-type star · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A3p — 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.

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 6.8 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Orion.
  • 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 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. ≈ 5.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 461.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.995
bv
0.139
constellation
Ori
dist ly
295.4311
luminosity
13.8676
mag
6.78
name
HD 32576
spect
A3p

About HD 32576

HD 32576 is a trash star. It lies about 295.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori, shines at apparent magnitude 6.78 and has spectral type A3p.

Its spectrum reads A3p — 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 32576 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 6.78, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 32576 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 32576 is a trash star

HD 32576 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, In Orion's hunting ground and White A-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.