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Uncommon star 31 EP

82 G. Eri

RA 49.9792° · Dec -43.0698° · 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. ≈ 346.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 30.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 197 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 19.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2006.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 39.4 years round-trip.

How we found it

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

Properties

absmag
5.354
bv
0.711
constellation
Eri
dist ly
19.7109
mag
4.26
name
82 G. Eri
named
yes
spect
G8V

About 82 G. Eri

82 G. Eri is an uncommon star. It lies about 19.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Eri, shines at apparent magnitude 4.26 and has spectral type G8V.

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

How to see it

Look for 82 G. Eri in the constellation Eri. At apparent magnitude 4.26, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 82 G. Eri 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 82 G. Eri is an uncommon star

82 G. Eri 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.