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Trash star 11 EP

HD 76285

RA 132.9696° · Dec -63.6812° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G2w... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

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 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 February — 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. ≈ 5.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 480 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
4.079
bv
0.628
constellation
Car
dist ly
307.4043
luminosity
2.0342
mag
8.95
name
HD 76285
spect
G2w...

About HD 76285

HD 76285 is a trash star. It lies about 307.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 8.95 and has spectral type G2w....

Its spectrum reads G2w... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 76285 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 8.95, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 76285 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 76285 is a trash star

HD 76285 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 2 science badges — Star and Sun-like G-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.