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Trash star 13 EP

GL GJ 3684

RA 176.7840° · Dec 70.0333° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
13 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 13

2 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • 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 13.6 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Draco.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around March — 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. ≈ 971.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 86.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
12.454
constellation
Dra
dist ly
55.2808
luminosity
0.0009
mag
13.6
name
GL GJ 3684
spect
m

About GL GJ 3684

GL GJ 3684 is a trash star. It lies about 55.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Dra, shines at apparent magnitude 13.6 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 3684 in the constellation Dra. At apparent magnitude 13.6, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3684 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 3684 is a trash star

GL GJ 3684 scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar) 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.