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Common star 18 EP

HD 109808

RA 189.5303° · Dec -55.9312° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
18 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Under the Southern Cross +8
  • White A-type star +5
  • Star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 18

4 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Under the Southern Cross · +8
  • White A-type star · +5
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads A1/A2V — 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 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.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 6.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 565.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.724
bv
0.15
constellation
Cru
dist ly
361.9934
luminosity
17.7992
mag
6.95
name
HD 109808
spect
A1/A2V

About HD 109808

HD 109808 is a common star. It lies about 362 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cru, shines at apparent magnitude 6.95 and has spectral type A1/A2V.

Its spectrum reads A1/A2V — 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 109808 in the constellation Cru. At apparent magnitude 6.95, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 109808 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 109808 is a common star

HD 109808 scores 18 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Under the Southern Cross, White A-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.