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Common star 23 EP

Bet Hyi

RA 6.4187° · Dec -77.2542° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
23 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 23

1 more point to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • Naked-eye visible · +8

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 427.5 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 38 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 243 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 24.3 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2002.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 48.7 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.457
bv
0.618
constellation
Hyi
dist ly
24.3273
mag
2.82
name
Bet Hyi
spect
G2IV

About Bet Hyi

Bet Hyi is a common star. It lies about 24.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Hyi, shines at apparent magnitude 2.82 and has spectral type G2IV.

Bet Hyi is a common star worth 23 points across 3 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for Bet Hyi in the constellation Hyi. At apparent magnitude 2.82, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, Bet Hyi 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 Bet Hyi is a common star

Bet Hyi scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 ly) and Naked-eye visible — 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.