Trash star 6 EP

HIP 56405

RA 173.4544° · Dec 1.7522° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges

6 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Star +3
On the zodiac +3

Total score 6

9 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
On the zodiac · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 666.8 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 R... — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

Find it in the sky

How to spot it. At magnitude 10.3 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Leo.
Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
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 orange (B−V 1.4) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.

By the numbers

Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3970 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: -9.73
bv: 1.39
constellation: Leo
luminosity: 679203.6326
mag: 10.27
name: HIP 56405
spect: R...

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About HIP 56405

HIP 56405 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Leo, shines at apparent magnitude 10.27 and has spectral type R....

Its spectrum reads R... — a carbon star, wrapped in so much soot that its light is filtered to a deep ruby red.

How to see it

Look for HIP 56405 in the constellation Leo. At apparent magnitude 10.27, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 56405 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 56405 is a trash star

HIP 56405 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 On the zodiac — 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.