Trash variable star 13 EP
Menkar
RA 45.5699° · Dec 4.0897° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 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. ≈ 4.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 389 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 2492 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 249 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1777.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 498 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- -1.875
- bv
- 1.63
- constellation
- Cet
- dist ly
- 249.1643
- mag
- 2.54
- name
- Menkar
- named
- yes
- spect
- M2III