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Common star 17 EP

HIP 92059

RA 281.4505° · Dec -34.3343° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
17 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Toward the galactic centre +8
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 17

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Toward the galactic centre · +8
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads Fp — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 13.2 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, 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 July — 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 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 91.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
11.881
constellation
Sgr
dist ly
58.7776
luminosity
0.0015
mag
13.16
name
HIP 92059
spect
Fp

About HIP 92059

HIP 92059 is a common star. It lies about 58.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr, shines at apparent magnitude 13.16 and has spectral type Fp.

Its spectrum reads Fp — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 92059 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 13.16, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 92059 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 92059 is a common star

HIP 92059 scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Toward the galactic centre, On the zodiac and Yellow-white F-type 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.