About HIP 8909
HIP 8909 is a trash star. It lies about 526.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation And and shines at apparent magnitude 10.44.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 6150 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 3 EP
HIP 8909
RA 28.6731° · Dec 38.1917° · star
Score breakdown
· 1 badgeTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
Total score 3
12 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +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 Andromeda.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
- 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. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 9.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 821.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 5261 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 4.402
- bv
- 0.554
- constellation
- And
- dist ly
- 526.058
- luminosity
- 1.5108
- mag
- 10.44
- name
- HIP 8909
How to see it
Look for HIP 8909 in the constellation And. At apparent magnitude 10.44, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 8909 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 8909 is a trash star
HIP 8909 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.