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HIP 53630

RA 164.5720° · Dec -38.4434° · 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 Fp... — 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 12.3 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 March — 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. ≈ 8.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 765.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
6.454
constellation
Ant
dist ly
490.46
luminosity
0.2282
mag
12.34
name
HIP 53630
spect
Fp...

About HIP 53630

HIP 53630 is a trash star. It lies about 490.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ant, shines at apparent magnitude 12.34 and has spectral type Fp....

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

How to see it

Look for HIP 53630 in the constellation Ant. At apparent magnitude 12.34, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 53630 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 53630 is a trash star

HIP 53630 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.