About HIP 489
HIP 489 is a trash star. It lies about 225.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc and shines at apparent magnitude 10.38.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 5340 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 6 EP
HIP 489
RA 1.4659° · Dec 2.7643° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 6
9 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
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 10.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Pisces.
- 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 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 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 352.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 2256 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 6.181
- bv
- 0.782
- constellation
- Psc
- dist ly
- 225.5574
- luminosity
- 0.2935
- mag
- 10.38
- name
- HIP 489
How to see it
Look for HIP 489 in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 10.38, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 489 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 489 is a trash star
HIP 489 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 On the zodiac — 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.