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Trash star 9 EP

GL GJ 3311

RA 71.5695° · Dec 48.7501° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
9 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads m — an M-type red star — and M stars are the silent majority: roughly three of every four stars in the galaxy are one.

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 17.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Perseus.
  • 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. ≈ 1.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 98.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
15.862
constellation
Per
dist ly
62.9644
luminosity
0
mag
17.29
name
GL GJ 3311
spect
m

About GL GJ 3311

GL GJ 3311 is a trash star. It lies about 63 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Per, shines at apparent magnitude 17.29 and has spectral type m.

Its spectrum reads m — an M-type red star — and M stars are the silent majority: roughly three of every four stars in the galaxy are one.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 3311 in the constellation Per. At apparent magnitude 17.29, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3311 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 3311 is a trash star

GL GJ 3311 scores 9 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — 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.