About HD 57286
HD 57286 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Vol, shines at apparent magnitude 9.46 and has spectral type F2V:.
Its spectrum reads F2V: — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Trash star 8 EP
HD 57286
RA 108.9369° · Dec -66.1970° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- Yellow-white F-type star +3
- Main-sequence star +2
Total score 8
7 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Yellow-white F-type star · +3
- Main-sequence star · +2
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 1.4 million 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 F2V: — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
- Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 9.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Volans.
- 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 January — 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.
Properties
- absmag
- -10.54
- bv
- 0.501
- constellation
- Vol
- luminosity
- 1432187.8993
- mag
- 9.46
- name
- HD 57286
- spect
- F2V:
How to see it
Look for HD 57286 in the constellation Vol. At apparent magnitude 9.46, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HD 57286 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 57286 is a trash star
HD 57286 scores 8 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence 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.