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Trash star 3 EP

HD 121304

RA 208.7942° · Dec -23.6676° · 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. ≈ 15.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 8744 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 874 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1152.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1749 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
0.769
bv
0.956
constellation
Hya
dist ly
874.4128
mag
7.91
name
HD 121304
spect
K0IIICNpvar

About HD 121304

HD 121304 is a trash star. It lies about 874.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Hya, shines at apparent magnitude 7.91 and has spectral type K0IIICNpvar.

HD 121304 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 121304 in the constellation Hya. At apparent magnitude 7.91, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 121304 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 121304 is a trash star

HD 121304 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.

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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.