About HIP 75026
HIP 75026 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Lib, shines at apparent magnitude 9.37 and has spectral type G8.
Its spectrum reads G8 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Trash star 14 EP
HIP 75026
RA 229.9579° · Dec -6.4835° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Sun-like G-type star +8
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
- Sun-like G-type star · +8
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 1.5 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 G8 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 9.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Libra.
- 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.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out orange (B−V 1.1) — 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 4580 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
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
- -10.63
- bv
- 1.072
- constellation
- Lib
- luminosity
- 1555965.6316
- mag
- 9.37
- name
- HIP 75026
- spect
- G8
How to see it
Look for HIP 75026 in the constellation Lib. At apparent magnitude 9.37, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 75026 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 75026 is a trash star
HIP 75026 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac and Sun-like G-type 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.