Trash star 12 EP

HD 123146

RA 211.9090° · Dec -56.3479° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

12 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Giant star +6
Star +3
Orange K-type star +3

Total score 12

3 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Orange K-type star · +3
Giant star · +6

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 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 K1III+... — 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 a giant. It has already exhausted its core hydrogen and swollen up enormously in response.

Find it in the sky

How to spot it. At magnitude 8.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Centaurus.
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) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.
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.

Properties

absmag: -11.67
bv: 0.987
constellation: Cen
luminosity: 4055085.3545
mag: 8.33
name: HD 123146
spect: K1III+...

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About HD 123146

HD 123146 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Cen, shines at apparent magnitude 8.33 and has spectral type K1III+....

Its spectrum reads K1III+... — 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 123146 in the constellation Cen. At apparent magnitude 8.33, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 123146 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 123146 is a trash star

HD 123146 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Orange K-type star and Giant 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.