About HIP 66167
HIP 66167 is a trash star. It lies about 195.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vir and shines at apparent magnitude 11.49.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 2890 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 14 EP
HIP 66167
RA 203.4464° · Dec 14.3216° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Deep red star +8
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
- Deep red star · +8
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 11.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Virgo.
- 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. ≈ 3.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 305.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 1954 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 7.602
- bv
- 2.3
- constellation
- Vir
- dist ly
- 195.42
- luminosity
- 0.0793
- mag
- 11.49
- name
- HIP 66167
Nearby objects
How to see it
Look for HIP 66167 in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 11.49, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 66167 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 66167 is a trash star
HIP 66167 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac and Deep red 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.