About GL GJ 3308
GL GJ 3308 is a trash star. It lies about 80.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau and shines at apparent magnitude 13.4.
Faint for real, not just for distance: the Sun outshines it about 435 times over.
Trash star 6 EP
GL GJ 3308
RA 70.8593° · Dec 19.0067° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 6
9 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +3
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 13.4 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 December — 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. ≈ 1.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 126.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 809 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 11.427
- constellation
- Tau
- dist ly
- 80.932
- luminosity
- 0.0023
- mag
- 13.4
- name
- GL GJ 3308
How to see it
Look for GL GJ 3308 in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 13.4, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3308 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 3308 is a trash star
GL GJ 3308 scores 6 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and On the zodiac — 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.