About HIP 63873
HIP 63873 is a trash star. It lies about 516.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vir and shines at apparent magnitude 10.54.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 5710 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 6 EP
HIP 63873
RA 196.3626° · Dec -10.3249° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 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
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 10.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Virgo.
- Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south 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. ≈ 9.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 807.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 5169 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 4.54
- bv
- 0.67
- constellation
- Vir
- dist ly
- 516.8875
- luminosity
- 1.3305
- mag
- 10.54
- name
- HIP 63873
How to see it
Look for HIP 63873 in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 10.54, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 63873 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 63873 is a trash star
HIP 63873 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.