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Uncommon star 29 EP

GL Gl 194B

RA 79.1689° · Dec 46.0008° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
29 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Brilliant (mag < 1) +18
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Star +3
Total score 29

4 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Brilliant (mag < 1) · +18

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 741.6 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 65.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 422 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 42.2 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1984.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 84.4 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
0.401
constellation
Aur
dist ly
42.199
mag
0.96
name
GL Gl 194B
spect
G0 III

About GL Gl 194B

GL Gl 194B is an uncommon star. It lies about 42.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aur, shines at apparent magnitude 0.96 and has spectral type G0 III.

GL Gl 194B is a uncommon star worth 29 points across 3 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 194B in the constellation Aur. At apparent magnitude 0.96, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 194B 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 194B is an uncommon star

GL Gl 194B scores 29 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible and Brilliant (mag < 1) — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.