Common variable star 15 EP
16 Lac
RA 344.0985° · Dec 41.6039° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Variable star +5
Total score 15
9 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Variable star · +5
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 22.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 12.7 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1274 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 752.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2548 years round-trip.
Properties
- absmag
- -2.359
- bv
- -0.149
- constellation
- Lac
- dist ly
- 1274.0469
- mag
- 5.6
- name
- 16 Lac
- spect
- B2IV