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HIP 227

RA 0.7043° · Dec 80.2866° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 444.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 2846 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 285 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1741.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 569 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
5.156
bv
0.442
constellation
Cep
dist ly
284.6037
mag
9.86
name
HIP 227

About HIP 227

HIP 227 is a trash star. It lies about 284.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cep and shines at apparent magnitude 9.86.

HIP 227 is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for HIP 227 in the constellation Cep. At apparent magnitude 9.86, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 227 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 227 is a trash star

HIP 227 scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.