About GL GJ 1091
GL GJ 1091 is a trash star. It lies about 73.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aur and shines at apparent magnitude 13.34.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4030 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 3 EP
GL GJ 1091
RA 102.2079° · Dec 37.1449° · star
Score breakdown
· 1 badgeTrash 15 pts → Common
- Star +3
Total score 3
12 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +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 13.3 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Auriga.
- 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 January — 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. ≈ 1.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 115 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 736 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 11.572
- bv
- 1.35
- constellation
- Aur
- dist ly
- 73.6245
- luminosity
- 0.002
- mag
- 13.34
- name
- GL GJ 1091
How to see it
Look for GL GJ 1091 in the constellation Aur. At apparent magnitude 13.34, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1091 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 1091 is a trash star
GL GJ 1091 scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.