About HIP 86489
HIP 86489 is a trash star. It lies about 80.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco and shines at apparent magnitude 10.66.
It is a genuine dim bulb — only about 2.9% of the Sun's light output.
Trash star 6 EP
HIP 86489
RA 265.1113° · Dec -43.8657° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 6
9 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +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 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 126.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 809 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 8.688
- constellation
- Sco
- dist ly
- 80.8717
- luminosity
- 0.0292
- mag
- 10.66
- name
- HIP 86489
How to see it
Look for HIP 86489 in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 10.66, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 86489 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 86489 is a trash star
HIP 86489 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star 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.