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Trash star 6 EP

HIP 114661

RA 348.4116° · Dec 39.4174° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
6 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 6

9 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F6 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 11 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Andromeda.
  • 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 September — 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. ≈ 4.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 383.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
6.638
bv
0.689
constellation
And
dist ly
245.4145
luminosity
0.1927
mag
11.02
name
HIP 114661
spect
F6

About HIP 114661

HIP 114661 is a trash star. It lies about 245.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation And, shines at apparent magnitude 11.02 and has spectral type F6.

Its spectrum reads F6 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 114661 in the constellation And. At apparent magnitude 11.02, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 114661 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 114661 is a trash star

HIP 114661 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Yellow-white F-type 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.