About GL GJ 4271
GL GJ 4271 is a trash star. It lies about 75.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation PsA and shines at apparent magnitude 14.2.
Faint for real, not just for distance: the Sun outshines it about 1035 times over.
Trash star 9 EP
GL GJ 4271
RA 334.4744° · Dec -36.1895° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 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
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 14.2 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures, over in Piscis Austrinus.
- 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 August — 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. ≈ 1.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 118.4 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 759 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 12.367
- constellation
- PsA
- dist ly
- 75.8502
- luminosity
- 0.001
- mag
- 14.2
- name
- GL GJ 4271
How to see it
Look for GL GJ 4271 in the constellation PsA. At apparent magnitude 14.2, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 4271 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 4271 is a trash star
GL GJ 4271 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.