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Trash star 6 EP

HD 41093

RA 89.9373° · Dec -54.6179° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
6 pts · Trash
Trash 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

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F8w... — 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 Pictor.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south 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 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 797 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.158
bv
0.514
constellation
Pic
dist ly
510.4162
luminosity
4.7512
mag
9.13
name
HD 41093
spect
F8w...

About HD 41093

HD 41093 is a trash star. It lies about 510.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pic, shines at apparent magnitude 9.13 and has spectral type F8w....

Its spectrum reads F8w... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 41093 in the constellation Pic. At apparent magnitude 9.13, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 41093 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 41093 is a trash star

HD 41093 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.