About HIP 85605
HIP 85605 is a common star. It lies about 22.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Her and shines at apparent magnitude 11.39.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4510 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Common star 21 EP
HIP 85605
RA 262.4010° · Dec 24.6541° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Nearby (<25 ly) +12
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
- Star +3
Total score 21
1 more point to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6
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 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Hercules.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 390.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 34.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 222 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 12.224
- bv
- 1.101
- constellation
- Her
- dist ly
- 22.2115
- luminosity
- 0.0011
- mag
- 11.39
- name
- HIP 85605
How to see it
Look for HIP 85605 in the constellation Her. At apparent magnitude 11.39, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 85605 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 85605 is a common star
HIP 85605 scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 ly) and Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) — 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.