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Trash variable star 5 EP

HIP 74509

RA 228.3856° · Dec 38.5682° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
5 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Variable star +5
Total score 5

10 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 937.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 6007 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 601 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1425.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1201 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.854
bv
0.81
constellation
Boo
dist ly
600.6557
mag
10.18
name
HIP 74509
spect
G5Ve + G8Ve

About HIP 74509

HIP 74509 is a trash variable star. It lies about 600.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Boo, shines at apparent magnitude 10.18 and has spectral type G5Ve + G8Ve.

HIP 74509 is a trash variable star worth 5 points across 1 science badge. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for HIP 74509 in the constellation Boo. At apparent magnitude 10.18, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HIP 74509 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 74509 is a trash variable star

HIP 74509 scores 5 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Variable 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.