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Common variable star 15 EP

16 Lac

RA 344.0985° · Dec 41.6039° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 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
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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.