About HIP 48659
HIP 48659 is a trash star. It lies about 36.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ant and shines at apparent magnitude 12.04.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3600 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 11 EP
HIP 48659
RA 148.8495° · Dec -27.2613° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Deep red star +8
- Star +3
Total score 11
4 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Deep red star · +8
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 12 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Antlia.
- 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.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 648.9 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 57.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 369 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 11.77
- bv
- 1.635
- constellation
- Ant
- dist ly
- 36.929
- luminosity
- 0.0017
- mag
- 12.04
- name
- HIP 48659
How to see it
Look for HIP 48659 in the constellation Ant. At apparent magnitude 12.04, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 48659 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 48659 is a trash star
HIP 48659 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 2 science badges — 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.