About HIP 29338
HIP 29338 is a common star. It lies about 2,077.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Gem and shines at apparent magnitude 9.59.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3940 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Common star 20 EP
HIP 29338
RA 92.7775° · Dec 25.5755° · star
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Deep red star +8
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 20
2 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
- On the zodiac · +3
- 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 9.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Gemini.
- 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. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 36.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 20.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 0.569
- bv
- 1.407
- constellation
- Gem
- dist ly
- 2077.4268
- luminosity
- 51.5703
- mag
- 9.59
- name
- HIP 29338
How to see it
Look for HIP 29338 in the constellation Gem. At apparent magnitude 9.59, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 29338 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 29338 is a common star
HIP 29338 scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), On the zodiac 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.