About HIP 67593
HIP 67593 is a common star. It lies about 17.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Boo and shines at apparent magnitude 13.31.
Faint for real, not just for distance: the Sun outshines it about 8694 times over.
Common star 21 EP
HIP 67593
RA 207.7615° · Dec 23.7767° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Nearby (<25 ly) +12
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
- Star +3
Total score 21
1 more point to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6
Trivia
Sense of scale
- In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 13.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Boötes.
- 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. ≈ 305.3 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 27.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 174 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 14.678
- constellation
- Boo
- dist ly
- 17.3707
- luminosity
- 0.0001
- mag
- 13.31
- name
- HIP 67593
How to see it
Look for HIP 67593 in the constellation Boo. At apparent magnitude 13.31, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, HIP 67593 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 67593 is a common star
HIP 67593 scores 21 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 ly) and Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) — 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.