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Trash star 7 EP

HIP 53554

RA 164.3328° · Dec 52.9035° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
7 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 7

8 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 151.4 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 11.9 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Ursa Major.
  • 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 March — that's when to go looking.

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
-8.12
constellation
UMa
luminosity
154170.0453
mag
11.88
name
HIP 53554

About HIP 53554

HIP 53554 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation UMa and shines at apparent magnitude 11.88.

HIP 53554 is a trash star worth 7 points across 2 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for HIP 53554 in the constellation UMa. At apparent magnitude 11.88, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 53554 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 53554 is a trash star

HIP 53554 scores 7 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Never sets (northern circumpolar) — 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.