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Uncommon star 25 EP

HIP 88524

RA 271.1617° · Dec -61.4799° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Deep red star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Deep red star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G8 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

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 9.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Pavo.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 23.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.042
bv
1.467
constellation
Pav
dist ly
1315.1451
luminosity
33.358
mag
9.07
name
HIP 88524
spect
G8

About HIP 88524

HIP 88524 is an uncommon star. It lies about 1,315.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pav, shines at apparent magnitude 9.07 and has spectral type G8.

Its spectrum reads G8 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 88524 in the constellation Pav. At apparent magnitude 9.07, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 88524 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 88524 is an uncommon star

HIP 88524 scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-type star and Deep red 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.