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HIP 103950

RA 315.9389° · Dec 12.0224° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
8 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 8

7 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F7Vm — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

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 9.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Equuleus.
  • 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 August — 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. ≈ 8.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
3.457
bv
0.507
constellation
Equ
dist ly
483.1939
luminosity
3.6074
mag
9.31
name
HIP 103950
spect
F7Vm

About HIP 103950

HIP 103950 is a trash star. It lies about 483.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Equ, shines at apparent magnitude 9.31 and has spectral type F7Vm.

Its spectrum reads F7Vm — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 103950 in the constellation Equ. At apparent magnitude 9.31, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 103950 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 103950 is a trash star

HIP 103950 scores 8 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence 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.