Trash star 14 EP

HD 72844

RA 127.1285° · Dec -74.9548° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

14 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
Star +3
Yellow-white F-type star +3
Main-sequence star +2

Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
Yellow-white F-type star · +3
Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F5V — 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.

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 8.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, 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.

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 18.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag: 1.356
bv: 0.546
constellation: Vol
dist ly: 1062.3974
luminosity: 24.9804
mag: 8.92
name: HD 72844
spect: F5V

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About HD 72844

HD 72844 is a trash star. It lies about 1,062.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vol, shines at apparent magnitude 8.92 and has spectral type F5V.

Its spectrum reads F5V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 72844 in the constellation Vol. At apparent magnitude 8.92, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 72844 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 72844 is a trash star

HD 72844 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 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), 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.