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Trash star 7 EP

HIP 73803

RA 226.2729° · Dec 79.0605° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
7 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 7

8 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 113.8 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

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 Ursa Minor.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

What's in a name

  • Its catalogue. The HIP number comes from Hipparcos, the ESA satellite that between 1989 and 1993 pinned down 118,000 stars precisely enough to triangulate their distances.

Properties

absmag
-7.81
constellation
UMi
luminosity
115877.7356
mag
12.19
name
HIP 73803

About HIP 73803

HIP 73803 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation UMi and shines at apparent magnitude 12.19.

HIP 73803 is a trash star worth 7 points across 2 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for HIP 73803 in the constellation UMi. At apparent magnitude 12.19, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 73803 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 73803 is a trash star

HIP 73803 scores 7 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Never sets (northern circumpolar) — 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.