About HIP 72954
HIP 72954 is a trash star. It lies about 150.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vir and shines at apparent magnitude 12.18.
It is a genuine dim bulb — only about 2.4% of the Sun's light output.
Trash star 6 EP
HIP 72954
RA 223.6499° · Dec 2.8412° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 6
9 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
Trivia
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 12.2 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Virgo.
- Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — 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. ≈ 2.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 234.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 1504 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 8.861
- constellation
- Vir
- dist ly
- 150.3716
- luminosity
- 0.0249
- mag
- 12.18
- name
- HIP 72954
How to see it
Look for HIP 72954 in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 12.18, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 72954 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 72954 is a trash star
HIP 72954 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and On the zodiac — 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.