About HD 65949
HD 65949 is a trash star. It lies about 1,094.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car and shines at apparent magnitude 8.38.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 10410 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 14 EP
HD 65949
RA 119.4486° · Dec -60.6097° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
- Blue-white star +5
- Star +3
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
- Blue-white star · +5
Trivia
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 8.4 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Carina.
- 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 19.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.7 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 10.9 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 0.751
- bv
- -0.022
- constellation
- Car
- dist ly
- 1094.4833
- luminosity
- 43.6114
- mag
- 8.38
- name
- HD 65949
Nearby objects
How to see it
Look for HD 65949 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 8.38, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 65949 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 65949 is a trash star
HD 65949 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) and Blue-white 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.