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Trash star 3 EP

HD 47085

RA 99.6363° · Dec 37.1140° · 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. ≈ 7.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 679.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 4355 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 435 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1591.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 871 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
2.422
bv
0.368
constellation
Aur
dist ly
435.4551
mag
8.05
name
HD 47085
spect
F0

About HD 47085

HD 47085 is a trash star. It lies about 435.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aur, shines at apparent magnitude 8.05 and has spectral type F0.

HD 47085 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 HD 47085 in the constellation Aur. At apparent magnitude 8.05, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 47085 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 47085 is a trash star

HD 47085 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.