Trash variable star 13 EP
Pherkad
RA 230.1822° · Dec 71.8340° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Has a proper name +8
- Variable star +5
Total score 13
2 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Variable star · +5
- Has a proper name · +8
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 8.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 760.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 4868 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 487 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1539.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 974 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- -2.87
- bv
- 0.058
- constellation
- UMi
- dist ly
- 486.7999
- mag
- 3
- name
- Pherkad
- named
- yes
- spect
- A3II-III