About HIP 84581
HIP 84581 is a trash star. It lies about 31.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Oph and shines at apparent magnitude 11.09.
Faint for real, not just for distance: the Sun outshines it about 340 times over.
Trash star 3 EP
HIP 84581
RA 259.3480° · Dec -7.8764° · 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. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 11.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Ophiuchus.
- 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 June — 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. ≈ 554.9 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 49.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 316 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 11.16
- constellation
- Oph
- dist ly
- 31.5797
- luminosity
- 0.003
- mag
- 11.09
- name
- HIP 84581
How to see it
Look for HIP 84581 in the constellation Oph. At apparent magnitude 11.09, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 84581 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 84581 is a trash star
HIP 84581 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.