About HD 109355
HD 109355 is an uncommon star. It sits in the constellation Cru, shines at apparent magnitude 7.87 and has spectral type F6II/III.
Its spectrum reads F6II/III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Uncommon star 26 EP
HD 109355
RA 188.6242° · Dec -58.3313° · star
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 34 pts → Rare
- Bright giant +12
- Under the Southern Cross +8
- Star +3
- Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 26
8 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Under the Southern Cross · +8
- Yellow-white F-type star · +3
- Bright giant · +12
Trivia
What it actually is
- Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F6II/III — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
- Where it is in life. It is a bright giant, well on its way to the largest stars there are.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 7.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Crux.
- Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around March — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out yellow (B−V 0.7) — almost exactly the Sun's own shade — a stellar twin in colour, if not in size.
- Why no green stars. No star ever looks green: a surface hot enough to peak in green also floods out plenty of red and blue, and your eye blends the mixture back to white.
By the numbers
- Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 5570 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Properties
- absmag
- -12.13
- bv
- 0.71
- constellation
- Cru
- luminosity
- 6194410.7508
- mag
- 7.87
- name
- HD 109355
- spect
- F6II/III
How to see it
Look for HD 109355 in the constellation Cru. At apparent magnitude 7.87, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 109355 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 109355 is an uncommon star
HD 109355 scores 26 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Under the Southern Cross, Yellow-white F-type star and Bright giant — 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.