Common variable star 15 EP
HD 59643
RA 112.9772° · Dec 24.5035° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Variable star +5
Total score 15
9 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Variable star · +5
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 50.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 4.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 28.6 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 2861 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 5722 years round-trip.
Properties
- absmag
- -1.695
- bv
- 2.056
- constellation
- Gem
- dist ly
- 2861.0176
- mag
- 8.02
- name
- HD 59643
- spect
- R9