About Danfeng
Danfeng is a trash star. It lies about 86 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tuc, shines at apparent magnitude 11.03 and has spectral type M2.
Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Trash star 11 EP
Danfeng
RA 350.0321° · Dec -60.0652° · 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. ≈ 1.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 134.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 860 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 86 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1940.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 172 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- 8.924
- bv
- 1.45
- constellation
- Tuc
- dist ly
- 86.0116
- mag
- 11.03
- name
- Danfeng
- named
- yes
- spect
- M2
How to see it
Look for Danfeng in the constellation Tuc. At apparent magnitude 11.03, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, Danfeng 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 Danfeng is a trash star
Danfeng 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.