About HIP 28355
HIP 28355 is a common star. It lies about 352.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ori and shines at apparent magnitude 10.46.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3280 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Common star 17 EP
HIP 28355
RA 89.8712° · Dec 22.5808° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Deep red star +8
- In Orion's hunting ground +6
- Star +3
Total score 17
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- In Orion's hunting ground · +6
- Deep red star · +8
Trivia
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 10.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Orion.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north 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. ≈ 6.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 550.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 3526 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 5.291
- bv
- 1.9
- constellation
- Ori
- dist ly
- 352.6011
- luminosity
- 0.6662
- mag
- 10.46
- name
- HIP 28355
How to see it
Look for HIP 28355 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 10.46, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 28355 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 28355 is a common star
HIP 28355 scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, In Orion's hunting ground and Deep red 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.