About GL GJ 1033
GL GJ 1033 is a common star. It lies about 52.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cet and shines at apparent magnitude 14.16.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3680 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Common star 17 EP
GL GJ 1033
RA 18.3551° · Dec -22.9015° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Deep red star +8
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
- Star +3
Total score 17
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Deep red star · +8
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6
Trivia
Sense of scale
- In perspective. Inside our stellar backyard: every radio broadcast humanity has ever made has already swept past it.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 14.2 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Cetus.
- Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around October — that's when to go looking.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 924.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 82.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 526 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 13.122
- bv
- 1.58
- constellation
- Cet
- dist ly
- 52.6057
- luminosity
- 0.0005
- mag
- 14.16
- name
- GL GJ 1033
How to see it
Look for GL GJ 1033 in the constellation Cet. At apparent magnitude 14.16, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1033 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 GJ 1033 is a common star
GL GJ 1033 scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Deep red star and Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) — 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.