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Trash variable star 13 EP

Caph

RA 2.2933° · Dec 59.1498° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Variable star +5
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • 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. ≈ 962 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 85.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 547 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 54.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1971.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 109 years round-trip.

How we found it

  • Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.

Properties

absmag
1.155
bv
0.38
constellation
Cas
dist ly
54.7427
mag
2.28
name
Caph
named
yes
spect
F2III-IV
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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.