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Uncommon variable star 25 EP

Wolf 1061

RA 247.5753° · Dec -12.6626° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Variable star +5
Total score 25

8 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • 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. ≈ 246 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 21.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 140 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 14 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2012.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 28 years round-trip.

How we found it

  • Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.

Properties

absmag
11.937
bv
1.604
constellation
Oph
dist ly
13.9993
mag
10.1
name
Wolf 1061
named
yes
spect
M4

About Wolf 1061

Wolf 1061 is an uncommon variable star. It lies about 14 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Oph, shines at apparent magnitude 10.1 and has spectral type M4.

Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.

How to see it

Look for Wolf 1061 in the constellation Oph. At apparent magnitude 10.1, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, Wolf 1061 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 Wolf 1061 is an uncommon variable star

Wolf 1061 scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Variable star, Nearby (<25 ly) and Has a proper name — 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.