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Trash variable star 5 EP

HR 8926

RA 352.5080° · Dec 58.5489° · 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. ≈ 10.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 970 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 6212 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 621 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1405.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1242 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-1.509
bv
-0.122
constellation
Cas
dist ly
621.2496
mag
4.89
name
HR 8926
spect
B3IV

About HR 8926

HR 8926 is a trash variable star. It lies about 621.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cas, shines at apparent magnitude 4.89 and has spectral type B3IV.

HR 8926 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 HR 8926 in the constellation Cas. At apparent magnitude 4.89, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, HR 8926 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 HR 8926 is a trash variable star

HR 8926 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.