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Uncommon star 31 EP

96 G. Psc

RA 12.0957° · Dec 5.2806° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
31 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Star +3
Total score 31

2 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • 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. ≈ 427.3 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 48.6 years round-trip.

How we found it

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

Properties

absmag
6.378
bv
0.89
constellation
Psc
dist ly
24.3146
mag
5.74
name
96 G. Psc
named
yes
spect
K2V

About 96 G. Psc

96 G. Psc is an uncommon star. It lies about 24.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 5.74 and has spectral type K2V.

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

How to see it

Look for 96 G. Psc in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 5.74, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 96 G. Psc 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 96 G. Psc is an uncommon star

96 G. Psc scores 31 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Nearby (<25 ly), Naked-eye visible 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.

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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.