About HIP 96891
HIP 96891 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Sgr and shines at apparent magnitude 11.43.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4180 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 14 EP
HIP 96891
RA 295.4340° · Dec -32.8710° · 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
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 229.1 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 11.4 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 July — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out orange (B−V 1.3) — 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 4180 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
- -8.57
- bv
- 1.27
- constellation
- Sgr
- luminosity
- 233345.8062
- mag
- 11.43
- name
- HIP 96891
Nearby objects
How to see it
Look for HIP 96891 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 11.43, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 96891 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 96891 is a trash star
HIP 96891 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.