Trash star 8 EP

HIP 66862

RA 205.5651° · Dec 37.8246° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

8 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Star +3
Orange K-type star +3
Main-sequence star +2

Total score 8

7 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Orange K-type star · +3
Main-sequence star · +2

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 K2V — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.
Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

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 Canes Venatici.
Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north 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 1.2) — 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 4290 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

Properties

absmag: -11.14
bv: 1.21
constellation: CVn
luminosity: 2488857.3183
mag: 8.86
name: HIP 66862
spect: K2V

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About HIP 66862

HIP 66862 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation CVn, shines at apparent magnitude 8.86 and has spectral type K2V.

Its spectrum reads K2V — 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 HIP 66862 in the constellation CVn. At apparent magnitude 8.86, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 66862 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 HIP 66862 is a trash star

HIP 66862 scores 8 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Orange K-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.