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Rare star 35 EP

GL GJ 4054

RA 275.3289° · Dec 61.0141° · star

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
35 pts · Rare
Rare 50 pts → Epic
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) +6
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
Total score 35

15 more points to reach Epic.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • White dwarf (a burnt-out core) · +22
  • Intrinsically feeble (Mv > +12) · +6

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads DC:9 — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.

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 15.7 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 June — 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. ≈ 733.9 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 65.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
15.113
bv
0.97
constellation
Dra
dist ly
41.7613
luminosity
0.0001
mag
15.65
name
GL GJ 4054
spect
DC:9

About GL GJ 4054

GL GJ 4054 is a rare star. It lies about 41.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Dra, shines at apparent magnitude 15.65 and has spectral type DC:9.

Its spectrum reads DC:9 — a white dwarf — the exposed, Earth-sized cinder of a dead star, with nothing left to burn.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 4054 in the constellation Dra. At apparent magnitude 15.65, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 4054 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 4054 is a rare star

GL GJ 4054 scores 35 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 15 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar), White dwarf (a burnt-out core) 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.