Trash star 12 EP

HIP 83573

RA 256.2028° · Dec -38.1073° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

12 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
Star +3
On the zodiac +3

Total score 12

3 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
On the zodiac · +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 8.3 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Scorpius.
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 June — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 49.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 4.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 28.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.

Properties

absmag: -1.328
bv: 0.095
constellation: Sco
dist ly: 2811.6898
luminosity: 295.9375
mag: 8.35
name: HIP 83573

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About HIP 83573

HIP 83573 is a trash star. It lies about 2,811.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco and shines at apparent magnitude 8.35.

Its colour puts the surface at roughly 9080 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

How to see it

Look for HIP 83573 in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 8.35, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 83573 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 83573 is a trash star

HIP 83573 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) and On the zodiac — 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.