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Trash variable star 5 EP

HD 23686

RA 56.5549° · Dec -24.3910° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
5 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Variable star +5
Total score 5

10 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 6.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 548.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 3515 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 351 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1675.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 703 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.488
bv
0.589
constellation
For
dist ly
351.4611
mag
8.65
name
HD 23686
spect
G1V

About HD 23686

HD 23686 is a trash variable star. It lies about 351.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation For, shines at apparent magnitude 8.65 and has spectral type G1V.

HD 23686 is a trash variable star worth 5 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 HD 23686 in the constellation For. At apparent magnitude 8.65, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 23686 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 HD 23686 is a trash variable star

HD 23686 scores 5 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — Variable 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.