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Trash star 11 EP

GL GJ 9131

RA 56.7674° · Dec 23.9967° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
  • On the zodiac +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • On the zodiac · +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F0 V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 8.4 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Taurus.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — 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. ≈ 1.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 104.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
6.813
bv
0.29
constellation
Tau
dist ly
67.1102
luminosity
0.164
mag
8.38
name
GL GJ 9131
spect
F0 V

About GL GJ 9131

GL GJ 9131 is a trash star. It lies about 67.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau, shines at apparent magnitude 8.38 and has spectral type F0 V.

Its spectrum reads F0 V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 9131 in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 8.38, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 9131 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 9131 is a trash star

GL GJ 9131 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence 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.