Trash star 3 EP

HD 98644

RA 170.2669° · Dec 12.5575° · 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. ≈ 688.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 4408 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 441 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1585.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 882 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag: 2.946
bv: 0.6
constellation: Leo
dist ly: 440.7512
mag: 8.6
name: HD 98644
spect: K0

About HD 98644

HD 98644 is a trash star. It lies about 440.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Leo, shines at apparent magnitude 8.6 and has spectral type K0.

HD 98644 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 98644 in the constellation Leo. At apparent magnitude 8.6, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 98644 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 98644 is a trash star

HD 98644 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.