About Solaris
Solaris is a trash star. It lies about 157.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Peg, shines at apparent magnitude 9.78 and has spectral type K5.
Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Trash star 11 EP
Solaris
RA 318.3999° · Dec 14.6894° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Has a proper name +8
- Star +3
Total score 11
4 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- 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. ≈ 2.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 246.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 1577 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 158 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1868.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 315 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- 6.358
- bv
- 1.611
- constellation
- Peg
- dist ly
- 157.7157
- mag
- 9.78
- name
- Solaris
- named
- yes
- spect
- K5
How to see it
Look for Solaris in the constellation Peg. At apparent magnitude 9.78, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, Solaris 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 Solaris is a trash star
Solaris scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star 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.