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Trash variable star 5 EP

HD 212617

RA 336.5405° · Dec -29.0822° · 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. ≈ 5.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 458.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 2936 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 294 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1732.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 587 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.149
bv
0.408
constellation
PsA
dist ly
293.5698
mag
7.92
name
HD 212617
spect
F0V

About HD 212617

HD 212617 is a trash variable star. It lies about 293.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation PsA, shines at apparent magnitude 7.92 and has spectral type F0V.

HD 212617 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 212617 in the constellation PsA. At apparent magnitude 7.92, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 212617 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 212617 is a trash variable star

HD 212617 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.