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Trash star 3 EP

12Tau2Ser

RA 233.0403° · Dec 16.0562° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 8.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 732.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 4693 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 469 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1557.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 939 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
0.43
bv
-0.038
constellation
Ser
dist ly
469.2892
mag
6.22
name
12Tau2Ser
spect
B9V

About 12Tau2Ser

12Tau2Ser is a trash star. It lies about 469.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Ser, shines at apparent magnitude 6.22 and has spectral type B9V.

12Tau2Ser is a trash star worth 3 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 12Tau2Ser in the constellation Ser. At apparent magnitude 6.22, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, 12Tau2Ser 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 12Tau2Ser is a trash star

12Tau2Ser scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.