Trash star 3 EP

HD 162688

RA 267.7874° · Dec 27.0684° · 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. ≈ 12.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 7168 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 717 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1309.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1434 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag: 1.69
bv: 0.101
constellation: Her
dist ly: 716.8263
mag: 8.4
name: HD 162688
spect: A3

About HD 162688

HD 162688 is a trash star. It lies about 716.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Her, shines at apparent magnitude 8.4 and has spectral type A3.

HD 162688 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 HD 162688 in the constellation Her. At apparent magnitude 8.4, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 162688 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 HD 162688 is a trash star

HD 162688 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.