About HIP 93961
HIP 93961 is a trash star. It lies about 680.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr and shines at apparent magnitude 12.05.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4840 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 14 EP
HIP 93961
RA 286.9746° · Dec -25.8441° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 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
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 12.1 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. ≈ 12 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 6809 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 5.452
- bv
- 0.96
- constellation
- Sgr
- dist ly
- 680.9103
- luminosity
- 0.5744
- mag
- 12.05
- name
- HIP 93961
How to see it
Look for HIP 93961 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 12.05, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 93961 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 93961 is a trash star
HIP 93961 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.