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Trash variable star 5 EP

HD 189885

RA 300.4528° · Dec 16.5125° · star

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Score breakdown

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

10 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 959.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 6142 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 614 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1412.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1228 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
1.165
bv
0.269
constellation
Sge
dist ly
614.2297
mag
7.54
name
HD 189885
spect
F0

About HD 189885

HD 189885 is a trash variable star. It lies about 614.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sge, shines at apparent magnitude 7.54 and has spectral type F0.

HD 189885 is a trash variable star worth 5 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 189885 in the constellation Sge. At apparent magnitude 7.54, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 189885 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 189885 is a trash variable star

HD 189885 scores 5 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Variable 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.