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Trash star 9 EP

GL GJ 9697B

RA 307.5432° · Dec 26.8425° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
9 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Binary star +6
  • Star +3
Total score 9

6 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Binary star · +6

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Not one star but two. It is a binary: two stars orbiting a shared centre of mass. More than half of all the 'stars' you can see are actually multiple systems.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 10.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Vulpecula.
  • 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 July — 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. ≈ 2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 179.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
7.967
binary
yes
constellation
Vul
dist ly
114.8438
luminosity
0.0567
mag
10.7
name
GL GJ 9697B

About GL GJ 9697B

GL GJ 9697B is a trash star. It lies about 114.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vul and shines at apparent magnitude 10.7.

It is a binary: two stars orbiting a shared centre of mass. More than half of all the 'stars' you can see are actually multiple systems.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 9697B in the constellation Vul. At apparent magnitude 10.7, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 9697B 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 9697B is a trash star

GL GJ 9697B 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 Binary 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.