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Trash star 3 EP

GL GJ 1201

RA 246.9721° · Dec 9.2038° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

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.
  • Distance. 73.6 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1952.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 147 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
14.362
bv
0.38
constellation
Her
dist ly
73.6245
mag
16.13
name
GL GJ 1201
spect
DA s

About GL GJ 1201

GL GJ 1201 is a trash star. It lies about 73.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Her, shines at apparent magnitude 16.13 and has spectral type DA s.

GL GJ 1201 is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. 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 GJ 1201 in the constellation Her. At apparent magnitude 16.13, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1201 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 1201 is a trash star

GL GJ 1201 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.

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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.