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Trash variable star 5 EP

54 Vir

RA 198.3618° · Dec -18.8264° · 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. ≈ 11.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 988.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 6333 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 633 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1393.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1267 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-0.181
bv
0.088
constellation
Vir
dist ly
633.3128
mag
6.26
name
54 Vir
spect
A0V

About 54 Vir

54 Vir is a trash variable star. It lies about 633.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vir, shines at apparent magnitude 6.26 and has spectral type A0V.

54 Vir 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 54 Vir in the constellation Vir. At apparent magnitude 6.26, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, 54 Vir 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 54 Vir is a trash variable star

54 Vir 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.