HD 103082 Star Facts (Distance, Colour & more)

HD 103082 is a White Dwarf that is located in the constellation of Puppis. The White Dwarf would most probably have been a star much like our own, the Sun before it had come to the end of its life having used up all its fuel. In between being a Main Sequence star and its present state, it would've first grown in size and then thrown off its mass in the form of solar winds as a Planetary Nebula which has since dispersed. It wouldn't have sufficient mass to go supernova. Based on the spectral type (DAZ6 C) of the star, the HD 103082 colour is white. It is not part of the Puppis constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation.

HD 103082 is located in the Milky Way galaxy, this is the galaxy that you reside in. In case you're wondering, HD 103082 is not located within the Solar System, there is only one star in the Solar System and that is the Sun.

There are no Exoplanets recorded on the site for the star and is most likely the case. If an exoplanet had been spotted or confirmed, it will probably be recorded in Exoplanet EU database.

No one has visited HD 103082 and we have no probes on a rendezvous with the star.

HD 103082 distance from Earth is 29.86 light years. When you look at a star, you are not seeing it in its present form but how it looked many years ago, as a rule of thumb, the number of light years is also the number of years in the past you are looking at it.

HD 103082 Location

The location of the white dwarf in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For HD 103082, the location is 07 40 20.7887176053 and -17 24 49.155097204 .

HD 103082 Radial Velocity and Proper Motion

HD 103082 Proper Motion

All stars like planets orbit round a central spot, in the case of planets, its the central star such as the Sun. In the case of a star, its the galactic centre. The constellations that we see today will be different than they were 50,000 years ago or 50,000 years from now. Proper Motion details the movements of these stars and are measured in milliarcseconds. The star is moving -542.673 milliarcseconds/year towards the north and 1,138.64 milliarcseconds/year east if we saw them in the horizon.

HD 103082 Radial Velocity

The Radial Velocity, that is the speed at which the star is towards the Sun is -10.00000 km/s . When the value is negative then the star and the Sun are getting closer to one another, likewise, a positive number means that two stars are moving away. Its nothing to fear as the stars are so far apart, they won't collide in our life-time, if ever.

HD 103082 Physical Properties

HD 103082 Colour

Based on the star's spectral type of DAZ6 C , HD 103082's colour and type is white white dwarf.

There is no relationship between colour and size, a red star can be both the largest and the smallest stars in the Universe. Small stars are more energy efficient than larger stars and live longer.

HD 103082 Temperature

HD 103082 Distance from Earth

The Parallax of the star is given as 109.21560 which gives a calculated distance to HD 103082 of 29.86 light years from the Earth or 9.16 parsecs. It is about 175,535,753,643,263 miles from Earth.

The star is roughly 1,889,372.46 Astronomical Units from the Earth/Sun give or take a few. An Astronomical Unit is the distance between Earth and the Sun. The number of A.U. is the number of times that the star is from the Earth compared to the Sun.

Alternative Names and Meanings

• LHS (Luyten Half-Second) in LHS 235 catalog is a star catalog of stars whose proper motions exceed half a second of arc annually. It is named after Willem Jacob Luyten, a Dutch-American Astronomer.
• The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD103082. The catalogue was started by the American doctor and has been expanded on over the years.
• The Gliese ID of the star is GL 283 A. The star was part of the original catalogue devised by German Astronomer Wilheim Gliese of stars located within 20 parsecs of Earth. Star Names

HD 103082 Travel Time

The time it will take to travel to this star is dependent on how fast you are going. U.G. has done some calculations as to how long it will take going at differing speeds. A note about the calculations, when I'm talking about years, I'm talking non-leap years only (365 days).

The New Horizons space probe is the fastest probe that we've sent into space at the time of writing. Its primary mission was to visit Pluto which at the time of launch (2006), Pluto was still a planet.

Mach 1 is the speed of sound, Mach 2 is twice the speed of sound. Corncorde before it was retired was the fastest commercial airline across the Atlantic and only one that could do Mach 2.

Description	Speed (m.p.h.)	Time (years)
Walking	4	5,006,153,135.485
Car	120	166,871,771.183
Airbus A380	736	27,207,353.997
Mach 1	767.269	26,098,555.45
Mach 2	1,534.54	13,049,260.718
New Horizons	33,000	606,806.441
Speed of Light	670,616,629	29.86

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