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GL Gl 853B

RA 334.5648° · Dec -53.6275° · 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. 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 9.9 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Grus.
  • 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. ≈ 780.1 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 69.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
9.231
binary
yes
constellation
Gru
dist ly
44.3931
luminosity
0.0177
mag
9.9
name
GL Gl 853B

About GL Gl 853B

GL Gl 853B is a trash star. It lies about 44.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Gru and shines at apparent magnitude 9.9.

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 Gl 853B in the constellation Gru. At apparent magnitude 9.9, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 853B 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 Gl 853B is a trash star

GL Gl 853B 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.