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18 Cet

RA 11.3695° · Dec -12.8808° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 157.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 1011 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 101 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1925.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 202 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.693
bv
0.603
constellation
Cet
dist ly
101.1022
mag
6.15
name
18 Cet
spect
G2V

About 18 Cet

18 Cet is a trash star. It lies about 101.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cet, shines at apparent magnitude 6.15 and has spectral type G2V.

18 Cet is a trash star worth 3 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 18 Cet in the constellation Cet. At apparent magnitude 6.15, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, 18 Cet 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 18 Cet is a trash star

18 Cet scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.