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Trash variable star 5 EP

83 UMa

RA 205.1845° · Dec 54.6816° · 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. ≈ 9.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 817.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 5235 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 524 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1502.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1047 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-1.398
bv
1.63
constellation
UMa
dist ly
523.5247
mag
4.63
name
83 UMa
spect
M2IIIvar

About 83 UMa

83 UMa is a trash variable star. It lies about 523.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMa, shines at apparent magnitude 4.63 and has spectral type M2IIIvar.

83 UMa 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 83 UMa in the constellation UMa. At apparent magnitude 4.63, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 83 UMa 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 83 UMa is a trash variable star

83 UMa 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.