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Trash star 12 EP

HD 249622

RA 89.2943° · Dec 10.2329° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
12 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • In Orion's hunting ground +6
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 12

3 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • In Orion's hunting ground · +6
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F0 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 9.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope, 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. ≈ 9.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 824.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.055
bv
0.341
constellation
Ori
dist ly
527.7605
luminosity
5.224
mag
9.1
name
HD 249622
spect
F0

About HD 249622

HD 249622 is a trash star. It lies about 527.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori, shines at apparent magnitude 9.1 and has spectral type F0.

Its spectrum reads F0 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 249622 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 9.1, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 249622 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 249622 is a trash star

HD 249622 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, In Orion's hunting ground 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.