Trash star 9 EP

HD 118055

RA 203.6663° · Dec -16.3230° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

9 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Star +3
On the zodiac +3
Orange K-type star +3

Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
On the zodiac · +3
Orange K-type star · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 2.4 million times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

What it actually is

Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K0w — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

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 Virgo.
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 April — that's when to go looking.

Its true colour

Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out orange (B−V 1.3) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.

By the numbers

Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4180 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

What's in a name

Its catalogue. The HD number is from the Henry Draper Catalogue, in which Annie Jump Cannon personally classified the spectra of nearly 400,000 stars — still the largest such feat by one person.

Properties

absmag: -11.14
bv: 1.268
constellation: Vir
luminosity: 2488857.3183
mag: 8.86
name: HD 118055
spect: K0w

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About HD 118055

HD 118055 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Vir, shines at apparent magnitude 8.86 and has spectral type K0w.

Its spectrum reads K0w — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HD 118055 in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 8.86, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 118055 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 118055 is a trash star

HD 118055 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac and Orange K-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.