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Rare star 35 EP

HIP 95024

RA 290.0164° · Dec 37.8743° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • Carbon star (sooty red) +24
  • Deep red star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Carbon star (sooty red) · +24
  • Deep red star · +8

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 255.9 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads C... — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 11.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Lyra.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Its true colour

  • Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out deep orange-red (B−V 1.6) — one of the coolest surfaces a star can have while still fusing.

By the numbers

  • Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3650 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
-8.69
bv
1.6
constellation
Lyr
luminosity
260615.355
mag
11.31
name
HIP 95024
spect
C...

About HIP 95024

HIP 95024 is a rare star. It sits in the constellation Lyr, shines at apparent magnitude 11.31 and has spectral type C....

Its spectrum reads C... — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

How to see it

Look for HIP 95024 in the constellation Lyr. At apparent magnitude 11.31, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 95024 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 95024 is a rare star

HIP 95024 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Carbon star (sooty red) 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.