Trash star 9 EP

HD 59332

RA 112.6012° · Dec 25.4486° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

9 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Star +3
On the zodiac +3
Orange K-type star +3

Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
On the zodiac · +3
Orange K-type star · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 3.4 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 K2 — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

Find it in the sky

How to spot it. At magnitude 8.5 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Gemini.
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 January — that's when to go looking.

Its true colour

Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out orange (B−V 1.4) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.

By the numbers

Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3990 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

What's in a name

Its catalogue. The HD number is from the Henry Draper Catalogue, in which Annie Jump Cannon personally classified the spectra of nearly 400,000 stars — still the largest such feat by one person.

Properties

absmag: -11.49
bv: 1.378
constellation: Gem
luminosity: 3435579.479
mag: 8.51
name: HD 59332
spect: K2

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About HD 59332

HD 59332 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Gem, shines at apparent magnitude 8.51 and has spectral type K2.

Its spectrum reads K2 — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HD 59332 in the constellation Gem. At apparent magnitude 8.51, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 59332 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 59332 is a trash star

HD 59332 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac and Orange K-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.