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Trash star 8 EP

HD 60455

RA 111.3178° · Dec -77.4480° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
8 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 8

7 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • White A-type star · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A3m... — 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 9.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Mensa.
  • 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.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 943.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.252
bv
0.347
constellation
Men
dist ly
603.9926
luminosity
4.3571
mag
9.59
name
HD 60455
spect
A3m...

About HD 60455

HD 60455 is a trash star. It lies about 604 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Men, shines at apparent magnitude 9.59 and has spectral type A3m....

Its spectrum reads A3m... — 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 60455 in the constellation Men. At apparent magnitude 9.59, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 60455 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 60455 is a trash star

HD 60455 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 2 science badges — Star 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.