About HIP 41979
HIP 41979 is a trash star. It lies about 879.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cnc and shines at apparent magnitude 11.45.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 13260 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 11 EP
HIP 41979
RA 128.3347° · Dec 20.4069° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Blue-white star +5
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 11
4 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
- Blue-white star · +5
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 11.4 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Cancer.
- 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 January — 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. ≈ 15.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 8791 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 4.297
- bv
- -0.186
- constellation
- Cnc
- dist ly
- 879.1268
- luminosity
- 1.6642
- mag
- 11.45
- name
- HIP 41979
How to see it
Look for HIP 41979 in the constellation Cnc. At apparent magnitude 11.45, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 41979 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 41979 is a trash star
HIP 41979 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac and Blue-white 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.