Common variable star 23 EP
Mekbuda
RA 106.0272° · Dec 20.5703° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Has a proper name +8
- Variable star +5
Total score 23
1 more point to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Variable star · +5
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
- Has a proper name · +8
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 24.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 13.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1376 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 650.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2752 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- -4.116
- bv
- 0.899
- constellation
- Gem
- dist ly
- 1376.1856
- mag
- 4.01
- name
- Mekbuda
- named
- yes
- spect
- G3Ibv SB