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Trash star 6 EP

HIP 44885

RA 137.1807° · Dec 43.6196° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
6 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 6

9 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F5 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the 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 10.9 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Lynx.
  • 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 February — 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. ≈ 8.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 743.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
5.038
bv
0.484
constellation
Lyn
dist ly
476.1401
luminosity
0.841
mag
10.86
name
HIP 44885
spect
F5

About HIP 44885

HIP 44885 is a trash star. It lies about 476.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Lyn, shines at apparent magnitude 10.86 and has spectral type F5.

Its spectrum reads F5 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 44885 in the constellation Lyn. At apparent magnitude 10.86, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 44885 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 44885 is a trash star

HIP 44885 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Yellow-white F-type 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.