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Trash variable star 5 EP

HR 5269

RA 210.8645° · Dec -41.4233° · 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. ≈ 12.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.1 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 7168 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 717 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1309.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1434 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
-0.63
bv
-0.112
constellation
Cen
dist ly
716.8263
mag
6.08
name
HR 5269
spect
B8 Si

About HR 5269

HR 5269 is a trash variable star. It lies about 716.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cen, shines at apparent magnitude 6.08 and has spectral type B8 Si.

HR 5269 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 HR 5269 in the constellation Cen. At apparent magnitude 6.08, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HR 5269 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 HR 5269 is a trash variable star

HR 5269 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.