Common star 20 EP

HIP 87458

RA 268.0551° · Dec -22.1613° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

20 pts · Common

Common 22 pts → Uncommon

Toward the galactic centre +8
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
Star +3
On the zodiac +3

Total score 20

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Star · +3
Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
Toward the galactic centre · +8
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 9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Sagittarius.
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. ≈ 41.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.7 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 23.6 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.

Properties

absmag: -0.321
constellation: Sgr
dist ly: 2363.4493
luminosity: 117.0577
mag: 8.98
name: HIP 87458

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About HIP 87458

HIP 87458 is a common star. It lies about 2,363.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr and shines at apparent magnitude 8.98.

Side by side with the Sun it would be about 115 times brighter.

How to see it

Look for HIP 87458 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 8.98, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 87458 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 87458 is a common star

HIP 87458 scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Toward the galactic centre 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.