About HIP 45050
HIP 45050 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Vel and shines at apparent magnitude 10.21.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 10810 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 8 EP
HIP 45050
RA 137.6360° · Dec -53.8880° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Blue-white star +5
- Star +3
Total score 8
7 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Blue-white star · +5
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 704.7 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 10.2 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Vela.
- Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around February — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out blue-white (B−V -0.1) — the hallmark of a surface far hotter than the Sun's.
- Why no green stars. No star ever looks green: a surface hot enough to peak in green also floods out plenty of red and blue, and your eye blends the mixture back to white.
By the numbers
- Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 10810 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
What's in a name
- Its catalogue. The HIP number comes from Hipparcos, the ESA satellite that between 1989 and 1993 pinned down 118,000 stars precisely enough to triangulate their distances.
Properties
- absmag
- -9.79
- bv
- -0.051
- constellation
- Vel
- luminosity
- 717794.2913
- mag
- 10.21
- name
- HIP 45050
How to see it
Look for HIP 45050 in the constellation Vel. At apparent magnitude 10.21, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 45050 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 45050 is a trash star
HIP 45050 scores 8 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star 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.