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Trash star 3 EP

HIP 26218

RA 83.8092° · Dec -69.6799° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 42.5 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 13.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Dorado.
  • 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 December — that's when to go looking.

What's in a name

  • Its catalogue. The HIP number comes from Hipparcos, the ESA satellite that between 1989 and 1993 pinned down 118,000 stars precisely enough to triangulate their distances.

Properties

absmag
-6.74
constellation
Dor
luminosity
43251.3831
mag
13.26
name
HIP 26218

About HIP 26218

HIP 26218 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Dor and shines at apparent magnitude 13.26.

HIP 26218 is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for HIP 26218 in the constellation Dor. At apparent magnitude 13.26, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 26218 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 26218 is a trash star

HIP 26218 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.