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HIP 1546

RA 4.8220° · Dec -19.9085° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
6 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • Orange K-type star +3
Total score 6

9 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Orange K-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K:... — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 12.5 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Cetus.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south 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. ≈ 1.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 147.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
10.147
constellation
Cet
dist ly
94.6201
luminosity
0.0076
mag
12.46
name
HIP 1546
spect
K:...

About HIP 1546

HIP 1546 is a trash star. It lies about 94.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cet, shines at apparent magnitude 12.46 and has spectral type K:....

Its spectrum reads K:... — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HIP 1546 in the constellation Cet. At apparent magnitude 12.46, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 1546 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 1546 is a trash star

HIP 1546 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 Orange K-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.