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HIP 62338

RA 191.6173° · Dec 36.7770° · 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 F8 — 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 10.1 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Canes Venatici.
  • 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 April — 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. ≈ 6.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 538.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
4.967
bv
0.651
constellation
CVn
dist ly
345.1386
luminosity
0.8978
mag
10.09
name
HIP 62338
spect
F8

About HIP 62338

HIP 62338 is a trash star. It lies about 345.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation CVn, shines at apparent magnitude 10.09 and has spectral type F8.

Its spectrum reads F8 — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for HIP 62338 in the constellation CVn. At apparent magnitude 10.09, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 62338 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 62338 is a trash star

HIP 62338 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.