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8 Cam

RA 74.9431° · Dec 53.1555° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 898.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 5752 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 575 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1451.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1150 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-0.142
bv
1.462
constellation
Cam
dist ly
575.2309
mag
6.09
name
8 Cam
spect
K4III

About 8 Cam

8 Cam is a trash star. It lies about 575.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cam, shines at apparent magnitude 6.09 and has spectral type K4III.

8 Cam is a trash star worth 3 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 8 Cam in the constellation Cam. At apparent magnitude 6.09, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, 8 Cam 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 8 Cam is a trash star

8 Cam scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.