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Trash variable star 5 EP

HD 50718

RA 104.1527° · Dec 46.5386° · 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. ≈ 10.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 970 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 6212 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 621 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1405.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1242 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
1.721
bv
0.114
constellation
Aur
dist ly
621.2496
mag
8.12
name
HD 50718
spect
A0...

About HD 50718

HD 50718 is a trash variable star. It lies about 621.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aur, shines at apparent magnitude 8.12 and has spectral type A0....

HD 50718 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 HD 50718 in the constellation Aur. At apparent magnitude 8.12, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 50718 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 50718 is a trash variable star

HD 50718 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.