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Trash star 6 EP

HIP 17894

RA 57.4104° · Dec -75.1787° · 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 K0 — 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. 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 12.1 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Mensa.
  • 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 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. ≈ 7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 621.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
6.676
bv
1.07
constellation
Men
dist ly
398.2368
luminosity
0.186
mag
12.11
name
HIP 17894
spect
K0

About HIP 17894

HIP 17894 is a trash star. It lies about 398.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Men, shines at apparent magnitude 12.11 and has spectral type K0.

Its spectrum reads K0 — 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 17894 in the constellation Men. At apparent magnitude 12.11, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 17894 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 17894 is a trash star

HIP 17894 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.