About HIP 7912
HIP 7912 is a trash star. It lies about 2,568.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Hyi and shines at apparent magnitude 11.86.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 10580 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 14 EP
HIP 7912
RA 25.4253° · Dec -73.8439° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
- Blue-white star +5
- Star +3
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
- Blue-white star · +5
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 11.9 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Hydrus.
- 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 October — that's when to go looking.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 45.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 25.7 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 2.379
- bv
- -0.035
- constellation
- Hyi
- dist ly
- 2568.1576
- luminosity
- 9.7364
- mag
- 11.86
- name
- HIP 7912
How to see it
Look for HIP 7912 in the constellation Hyi. At apparent magnitude 11.86, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 7912 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 7912 is a trash star
HIP 7912 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) and Blue-white 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.