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Common star 18 EP

HD 112123

RA 193.7608° · Dec -62.5589° · 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 A0/A1V — 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 7.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Crux.
  • 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 April — 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. ≈ 10.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 927.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.418
bv
0.083
constellation
Cru
dist ly
594.0912
luminosity
23.5939
mag
7.72
name
HD 112123
spect
A0/A1V

About HD 112123

HD 112123 is a common star. It lies about 594.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cru, shines at apparent magnitude 7.72 and has spectral type A0/A1V.

Its spectrum reads A0/A1V — 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 112123 in the constellation Cru. At apparent magnitude 7.72, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 112123 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 112123 is a common star

HD 112123 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.