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Common star 21 EP

Kap TrA

RA 238.8734° · Dec -68.6030° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
21 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 21

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
  • Naked-eye visible · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 21.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 12.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1208 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 818.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2416 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-2.733
bv
1.108
constellation
TrA
dist ly
1207.9853
mag
5.11
name
Kap TrA
spect
G6VII
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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.