About HIP 62000
HIP 62000 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Cru and shines at apparent magnitude 10.68.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 8150 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 11 EP
HIP 62000
RA 190.5986° · Dec -62.9954° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Under the Southern Cross +8
- Star +3
Total score 11
4 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Under the Southern Cross · +8
Trivia
Hard to believe
- True brightness. It pours out about 457.1 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Crux.
- Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around April — 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 8150 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
- -9.32
- bv
- 0.202
- constellation
- Cru
- luminosity
- 465586.0935
- mag
- 10.68
- name
- HIP 62000
Nearby objects
- Uncommon HIP 61997 variable star · <0.1° away
- Rare Coalsack Cluster cluster · <0.1° away
- Trash HIP 61978 star · <0.1° away
- Rare HR 4830 variable star · <0.1° away
- Epic HD 311884 variable star · 0.2° away
- Uncommon J1245-6238 pulsar · 0.5° away
- Uncommon HD 110062 star · 0.5° away
- Common HD 109891 star · 0.6° away
How to see it
Look for HIP 62000 in the constellation Cru. At apparent magnitude 10.68, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 62000 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 62000 is a trash star
HIP 62000 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Under the Southern Cross — 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.