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Rare star 37 EP

Canopus

RA 95.9879° · Dec -52.6957° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
37 pts · Rare
Rare 46 pts → Epic
  • Brilliant (mag < 1) +18
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Star +3
Total score 37

9 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Brilliant (mag < 1) · +18
  • 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. ≈ 5.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 482.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 3092 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 309 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1717.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 618 years round-trip.

How we found it

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

Properties

absmag
-5.504
bv
0.164
constellation
Car
dist ly
309.1525
mag
-0.62
name
Canopus
named
yes
spect
F0Ib
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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.