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Trash star 12 EP

HIP 27111

RA 86.2366° · Dec 9.2421° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
12 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • In Orion's hunting ground +6
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 12

3 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • In Orion's hunting ground · +6
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F8: — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 11.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Orion.
  • 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 December — 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. ≈ 936.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 83.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
10.284
bv
0.699
constellation
Ori
dist ly
53.2848
luminosity
0.0067
mag
11.35
name
HIP 27111
spect
F8:

About HIP 27111

HIP 27111 is a trash star. It lies about 53.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori, shines at apparent magnitude 11.35 and has spectral type F8:.

Its spectrum reads F8: — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 27111 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 11.35, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 27111 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 27111 is a trash star

HIP 27111 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, In Orion's hunting ground 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.