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HIP 115802

RA 351.9059° · Dec -60.3980° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G8 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own 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 9.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Tucana.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 3.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 340.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
5.605
bv
0.809
constellation
Tuc
dist ly
218.0187
luminosity
0.4989
mag
9.73
name
HIP 115802
spect
G8

About HIP 115802

HIP 115802 is a trash star. It lies about 218 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tuc, shines at apparent magnitude 9.73 and has spectral type G8.

Its spectrum reads G8 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 115802 in the constellation Tuc. At apparent magnitude 9.73, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 115802 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 115802 is a trash star

HIP 115802 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Sun-like G-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.