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Trash star 12 EP

HIP 27616

RA 87.7093° · Dec -10.1999° · 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 F2 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 9.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Orion.
  • 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 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. ≈ 9.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 810.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
3.6
bv
0.39
constellation
Ori
dist ly
519.3568
luminosity
3.1623
mag
9.61
name
HIP 27616
spect
F2

About HIP 27616

HIP 27616 is a trash star. It lies about 519.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori, shines at apparent magnitude 9.61 and has spectral type F2.

Its spectrum reads F2 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 27616 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 9.61, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 27616 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 27616 is a trash star

HIP 27616 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.