Trash star 14 EP

HIP 88339

RA 270.6126° · Dec -29.6673° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

14 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Toward the galactic centre +8
Star +3
On the zodiac +3

Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Toward the galactic centre · +8
On the zodiac · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 452.9 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

Find it in the sky

How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, 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.

Its true colour

Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out orange (B−V 1.2) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.

By the numbers

Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4210 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

What's in a name

Its catalogue. The HIP number comes from Hipparcos, the ESA satellite that between 1989 and 1993 pinned down 118,000 stars precisely enough to triangulate their distances.

Properties

absmag: -9.31
bv: 1.25
constellation: Sgr
luminosity: 461317.5746
mag: 10.69
name: HIP 88339

Nearby objects

About HIP 88339

HIP 88339 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Sgr and shines at apparent magnitude 10.69.

Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4210 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

How to see it

Look for HIP 88339 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 10.69, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 88339 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 88339 is a trash star

HIP 88339 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, 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.