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Common variable star 15 EP

HD 26763

RA 64.4331° · Dec 62.3466° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Variable star +5
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Variable star · +5
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 20.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.8 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 11.5 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1148 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 878.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2297 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-0.583
bv
2.038
constellation
Cam
dist ly
1148.4367
mag
7.15
name
HD 26763
spect
M2.5

About HD 26763

HD 26763 is a common variable star. It lies about 1,148.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cam, shines at apparent magnitude 7.15 and has spectral type M2.5.

HD 26763 is a common variable star worth 15 points across 2 science badges. 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 26763 in the constellation Cam. At apparent magnitude 7.15, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 26763 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 26763 is a common variable star

HD 26763 scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Variable star and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.