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Trash star 8 EP

HD 123585

RA 212.3991° · Dec -44.3670° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
8 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 8

7 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F7Vwp... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

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 9.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, 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.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 5.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
4.221
bv
0.519
constellation
Cen
dist ly
335.2065
luminosity
1.7848
mag
9.28
name
HD 123585
spect
F7Vwp...

About HD 123585

HD 123585 is a trash star. It lies about 335.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cen, shines at apparent magnitude 9.28 and has spectral type F7Vwp....

Its spectrum reads F7Vwp... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 123585 in the constellation Cen. At apparent magnitude 9.28, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 123585 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 123585 is a trash star

HD 123585 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, Yellow-white F-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.