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Uncommon star 25 EP

HIP 35918

RA 111.0688° · Dec -65.8129° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Deep red star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Deep red star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads Gp — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own 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 10.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Volans.
  • 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 January — 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. ≈ 33.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
1.75
bv
1.49
constellation
Vol
dist ly
1885.2949
luminosity
17.378
mag
10.56
name
HIP 35918
spect
Gp

About HIP 35918

HIP 35918 is an uncommon star. It lies about 1,885.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vol, shines at apparent magnitude 10.56 and has spectral type Gp.

Its spectrum reads Gp — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 35918 in the constellation Vol. At apparent magnitude 10.56, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 35918 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 35918 is an uncommon star

HIP 35918 scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Sun-like G-type star 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.