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Trash star 9 EP

GL GJ 3819

RA 209.7814° · Dec -23.5590° · 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 f-g — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

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 14.9 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Hydra.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south 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. ≈ 1.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 106.1 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
13.336
bv
0.32
constellation
Hya
dist ly
67.9491
luminosity
0.0004
mag
14.93
name
GL GJ 3819
spect
f-g

About GL GJ 3819

GL GJ 3819 is a trash star. It lies about 67.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Hya, shines at apparent magnitude 14.93 and has spectral type f-g.

Its spectrum reads f-g — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 3819 in the constellation Hya. At apparent magnitude 14.93, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3819 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 3819 is a trash star

GL GJ 3819 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.