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Trash variable star 5 EP

18 Aql

RA 286.7442° · Dec 11.0712° · star

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Score breakdown

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5 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Variable star +5
Total score 5

10 more points to reach Common.

Badges

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Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 12.3 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. ≈ 6984 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 698 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1328.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1397 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-1.583
bv
-0.055
constellation
Aql
dist ly
698.407
mag
5.07
name
18 Aql
spect
B8III
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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.