About HIP 31292
HIP 31292 is a trash star. It lies about 28.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Men and shines at apparent magnitude 11.41.
Faint for real, not just for distance: the Sun outshines it about 569 times over.
Trash star 3 EP
HIP 31292
RA 98.4473° · Dec -75.6250° · star
Score breakdown
· 1 badgeTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
Total score 3
12 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
Trivia
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 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Mensa.
- Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
- 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. ≈ 497.6 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 44.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 283 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 11.717
- constellation
- Men
- dist ly
- 28.3146
- luminosity
- 0.0018
- mag
- 11.41
- name
- HIP 31292
How to see it
Look for HIP 31292 in the constellation Men. At apparent magnitude 11.41, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 31292 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 31292 is a trash star
HIP 31292 scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.