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Common star 15 EP

GL Gl 693

RA 266.6449° · Dec -57.3190° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Star +3
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 334.2 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 29.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 190 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 19 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2007.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 38 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
11.921
bv
1.66
constellation
Pav
dist ly
19.0201
mag
10.75
name
GL Gl 693
spect
M5

About GL Gl 693

GL Gl 693 is a common star. It lies about 19 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pav, shines at apparent magnitude 10.75 and has spectral type M5.

GL Gl 693 is a common star worth 15 points across 2 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 693 in the constellation Pav. At apparent magnitude 10.75, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 693 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 GL Gl 693 is a common star

GL Gl 693 scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Nearby (<25 ly) — 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.