About HIP 8031
HIP 8031 is a trash star. It lies about 1,000.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc and shines at apparent magnitude 11.4.
Line it up beside the Sun and the two would be about equally bright.
Trash star 12 EP
HIP 8031
RA 25.7925° · Dec 6.1112° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 12
3 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
- 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 11.4 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 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. ≈ 17.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.6 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 10 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 3.966
- constellation
- Psc
- dist ly
- 1000.4786
- luminosity
- 2.2574
- mag
- 11.4
- name
- HIP 8031
How to see it
Look for HIP 8031 in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 11.4, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 8031 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 8031 is a trash star
HIP 8031 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years) 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.