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Trash variable star 5 EP

48 Tau

RA 63.9428° · Dec 15.4007° · 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. ≈ 2.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 231.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 1481 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 148 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1878.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 296 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
3.024
bv
0.4
constellation
Tau
dist ly
148.1182
mag
6.31
name
48 Tau
spect
F5Vvar

About 48 Tau

48 Tau is a trash variable star. It lies about 148.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau, shines at apparent magnitude 6.31 and has spectral type F5Vvar.

48 Tau 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 48 Tau in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 6.31, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, 48 Tau 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 48 Tau is a trash variable star

48 Tau 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.