About GL GJ 1171
GL GJ 1171 is a common star. It lies about 47.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Com and shines at apparent magnitude 14.73.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3390 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Common star 17 EP
GL GJ 1171
RA 202.6299° · Dec 19.1572° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 22 pts → Uncommon
- Deep red star +8
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
- Star +3
Total score 17
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Deep red star · +8
- Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6
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 14.7 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Coma Berenices.
- 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 April — 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. ≈ 829.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 73.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 472 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 13.927
- bv
- 1.8
- constellation
- Com
- dist ly
- 47.2006
- luminosity
- 0.0002
- mag
- 14.73
- name
- GL GJ 1171
How to see it
Look for GL GJ 1171 in the constellation Com. At apparent magnitude 14.73, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1171 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 1171 is a common star
GL GJ 1171 scores 17 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Deep red 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.