About HIP 79278
HIP 79278 is a trash star. It lies about 851.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Nor and shines at apparent magnitude 9.56.
Side by side with the Sun it would be about 8.7 times brighter.
Trash star 3 EP
HIP 79278
RA 242.7017° · Dec -56.1648° · star
Score breakdown
· 1 badgeTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
Total score 3
12 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +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 9.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Norma.
- 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 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. ≈ 15 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 8516 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 2.476
- constellation
- Nor
- dist ly
- 851.5822
- luminosity
- 8.9043
- mag
- 9.56
- name
- HIP 79278
How to see it
Look for HIP 79278 in the constellation Nor. At apparent magnitude 9.56, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 79278 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 79278 is a trash star
HIP 79278 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.