Trash star 8 EP

HIP 53594

RA 164.4623° · Dec -16.7738° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

8 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Star +3
Orange K-type star +3
Main-sequence star +2

Total score 8

7 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Orange K-type star · +3
Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 444.6 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

What it actually is

Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K3V — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.
Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

Find it in the sky

How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Crater.
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 March — that's when to go looking.

Its true colour

Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out yellow (B−V 0.7) — almost exactly the Sun's own shade — a stellar twin in colour, if not in size.
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.

Properties

absmag: -9.29
bv: 0.72
constellation: Crt
luminosity: 452897.5799
mag: 10.71
name: HIP 53594
spect: K3V

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About HIP 53594

HIP 53594 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Crt, shines at apparent magnitude 10.71 and has spectral type K3V.

Its spectrum reads K3V — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HIP 53594 in the constellation Crt. At apparent magnitude 10.71, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 53594 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 53594 is a trash star

HIP 53594 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 3 science badges — Star, Orange K-type star and Main-sequence 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.