About HIP 59208
HIP 59208 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Vir, shines at apparent magnitude 10.73 and has spectral type F2.
Its spectrum reads F2 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Trash star 9 EP
HIP 59208
RA 182.1461° · Dec -0.4568° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
- Yellow-white F-type star +3
Total score 9
6 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
- Yellow-white F-type star · +3
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 436.5 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 F2 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Virgo.
- 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 brilliant white (B−V 0.2) — hotter and whiter than the Sun, the colour of Sirius or Vega.
- 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.
By the numbers
- Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 7920 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Properties
- absmag
- -9.27
- bv
- 0.232
- constellation
- Vir
- luminosity
- 444631.2675
- mag
- 10.73
- name
- HIP 59208
- spect
- F2
How to see it
Look for HIP 59208 in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 10.73, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 59208 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 59208 is a trash star
HIP 59208 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac 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.