Common star 19 EP
Alkaid
RA 206.8853° · Dec 49.3133° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Naked-eye visible +8
- Has a proper name +8
- Star +3
Total score 19
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Naked-eye visible · +8
- Has a proper name · +8
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 162.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 1039 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 104 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1922.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 208 years round-trip.
How we found it
- Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
- absmag
- -0.667
- bv
- -0.099
- constellation
- UMa
- dist ly
- 103.9374
- mag
- 1.85
- name
- Alkaid
- named
- yes
- spect
- B3V SB