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Trash variable star 12 EP

HIP 99887

RA 303.9930° · Dec 35.0147° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
12 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Variable star +5
  • Gently variable +4
  • A named variable star +3
Total score 12

3 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Gently variable · +4
  • A named variable star · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 534.6 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

What it actually is

  • It changes. This star does not hold still: its brightness rises and falls on a rhythm of hours, days or years, either pulsing in size or being eclipsed by a companion.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 10.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Cygnus.
  • 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 orange (B−V 1.1) — 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 4440 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
-9.49
bv
1.135
constellation
Cyg
luminosity
544502.6528
mag
10.51
name
HIP 99887
var amplitude
0.46
var designation
V495
var max
10.328
var min
10.788

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About HIP 99887

HIP 99887 is a trash variable star. It sits in the constellation Cyg and shines at apparent magnitude 10.51.

This star does not hold still: its brightness rises and falls on a rhythm of hours, days or years, either pulsing in size or being eclipsed by a companion.

How to see it

Look for HIP 99887 in the constellation Cyg. At apparent magnitude 10.51, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 99887 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 99887 is a trash variable star

HIP 99887 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Variable star, Gently variable and A named variable 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.