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Trash star 3 EP

HIP 78640

RA 240.8056° · Dec 42.2463° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 6.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 605.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 3878 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 388 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1638.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 776 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
4.484
bv
0.481
constellation
Her
dist ly
387.8194
mag
9.86
name
HIP 78640
spect
F5

About HIP 78640

HIP 78640 is a trash star. It lies about 387.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Her, shines at apparent magnitude 9.86 and has spectral type F5.

HIP 78640 is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. 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 78640 in the constellation Her. At apparent magnitude 9.86, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 78640 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 78640 is a trash star

HIP 78640 scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.