About HIP 80540
HIP 80540 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Nor, shines at apparent magnitude 9.88 and has spectral type G0+....
Its spectrum reads G0+... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Trash star 11 EP
HIP 80540
RA 246.6593° · Dec -52.0819° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Sun-like G-type star +8
- Star +3
Total score 11
4 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Sun-like G-type star · +8
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 955 thousand 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 G0+... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 9.9 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.
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
- -10.12
- constellation
- Nor
- luminosity
- 972747.2238
- mag
- 9.88
- name
- HIP 80540
- spect
- G0+...
How to see it
Look for HIP 80540 in the constellation Nor. At apparent magnitude 9.88, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 80540 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 80540 is a trash star
HIP 80540 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star 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.