Trash star 12 EP

GL Gl 168.1

RA 65.5412° · Dec 19.4835° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

12 pts · Trash

Trash 15 pts → Common

Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
Star +3
On the zodiac +3

Total score 12

3 more points to reach Common.

Badges

Star · +3
On the zodiac · +3
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 15 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, 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. ≈ 817.6 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 72.6 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 465 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.

Properties

absmag: 14.269
bv: 1
constellation: Tau
dist ly: 46.5271
luminosity: 0.0002
mag: 15.04
name: GL Gl 168.1

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About GL Gl 168.1

GL Gl 168.1 is a trash star. It lies about 46.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau and shines at apparent magnitude 15.04.

Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4740 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 168.1 in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 15.04, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 168.1 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 168.1 is a trash star

GL Gl 168.1 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, On the zodiac 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.