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Trash star 9 EP

HIP 29021

RA 91.8556° · Dec 2.1395° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
9 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • In Orion's hunting ground +6
  • Star +3
Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • In Orion's hunting ground · +6

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 487.5 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 10.6 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.

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
-9.39
constellation
Ori
luminosity
496592.3215
mag
10.61
name
HIP 29021

About HIP 29021

HIP 29021 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Ori and shines at apparent magnitude 10.61.

HIP 29021 is a trash star worth 9 points across 2 science badges. 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 29021 in the constellation Ori. At apparent magnitude 10.61, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 29021 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 29021 is a trash star

HIP 29021 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and In Orion's hunting ground — 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.