About HIP 107679
HIP 107679 is a common star. It lies about 1,203.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aqr and shines at apparent magnitude 10.76.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 12670 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Common star 17 EP
HIP 107679
RA 327.1845° · Dec 1.9594° · star
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
- Blue-white star +5
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 17
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
- On the zodiac · +3
- Blue-white star · +5
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 10.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Aquarius.
- Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
- 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 21.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 12 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 2.925
- bv
- -0.159
- constellation
- Aqr
- dist ly
- 1203.5277
- luminosity
- 5.8884
- mag
- 10.76
- name
- HIP 107679
How to see it
Look for HIP 107679 in the constellation Aqr. At apparent magnitude 10.76, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 107679 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 107679 is a common star
HIP 107679 scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), On the zodiac and Blue-white 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.