← Back to dex
Trash star 6 EP

HIP 15071

RA 48.5700° · Dec -14.8341° · star

Loading sky survey…
🌌 View in 3D star map
Tonight’s visibility

Computing the sky for your location…

Score breakdown

· 2 badges
6 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 6

9 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads sdF0 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a subdwarf: an old, metal-poor star from the galaxy's early days, a little smaller and fainter than a main-sequence star of the same colour.

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 10.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Eridanus.
  • 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 November — 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. ≈ 10.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
4.363
bv
0.374
constellation
Eri
dist ly
579.318
luminosity
1.566
mag
10.61
name
HIP 15071
spect
sdF0

About HIP 15071

HIP 15071 is a trash star. It lies about 579.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Eri, shines at apparent magnitude 10.61 and has spectral type sdF0.

Its spectrum reads sdF0 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 15071 in the constellation Eri. At apparent magnitude 10.61, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 15071 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 15071 is a trash star

HIP 15071 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 Yellow-white F-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.