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Trash star 11 EP

HD 70826

RA 126.2049° · Dec 20.1530° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • White A-type star · +5

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A5 — 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 7.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Cancer.
  • 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.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 957.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
0.97
bv
0.644
constellation
Cnc
dist ly
613.0751
luminosity
35.6451
mag
7.34
name
HD 70826
spect
A5

About HD 70826

HD 70826 is a trash star. It lies about 613.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cnc, shines at apparent magnitude 7.34 and has spectral type A5.

Its spectrum reads A5 — 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 70826 in the constellation Cnc. At apparent magnitude 7.34, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 70826 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 70826 is a trash star

HD 70826 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac 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.