Trash star 10 EP

HIP 63885

RA 196.3853° · Dec 81.1946° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

10 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
Star +3
Orange K-type star +3

Total score 10

5 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
Orange K-type star · +3

Trivia

Hard to believe

True brightness. It pours out about 452.9 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 K — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

Find it in the sky

How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Camelopardalis.
Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
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 orange (B−V 1.1) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.

By the numbers

Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4520 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: -9.31
bv: 1.096
constellation: Cam
luminosity: 461317.5746
mag: 10.69
name: HIP 63885
spect: K

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About HIP 63885

HIP 63885 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Cam, shines at apparent magnitude 10.69 and has spectral type K.

Its spectrum reads K — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for HIP 63885 in the constellation Cam. At apparent magnitude 10.69, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 63885 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 63885 is a trash star

HIP 63885 scores 10 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar) and Orange K-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.