About HIP 60511
HIP 60511 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Com, shines at apparent magnitude 9.99 and has spectral type G9V.
Its spectrum reads G9V — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
Trash star 13 EP
HIP 60511
RA 186.0714° · Dec 24.3245° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Sun-like G-type star +8
- Star +3
- Main-sequence star +2
Total score 13
2 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Sun-like G-type star · +8
- Main-sequence star · +2
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 863 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 G9V — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
- 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 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Coma Berenices.
- 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.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out yellow (B−V 0.8) — 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
- -10.01
- bv
- 0.794
- constellation
- Com
- luminosity
- 879022.5168
- mag
- 9.99
- name
- HIP 60511
- spect
- G9V
How to see it
Look for HIP 60511 in the constellation Com. At apparent magnitude 9.99, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 60511 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 60511 is a trash star
HIP 60511 scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Sun-like G-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.