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Trash star 14 EP

GL GJ 3005

RA 1.1604° · Dec -50.0359° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Red dwarf +6
  • Cool red M-type star +5
  • Star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Cool red M-type star · +5
  • Red dwarf · +6

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 401.8 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads M5 — an M-type red star — and M stars are the silent majority: roughly three of every four stars in the galaxy are one.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 10.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Phoenix.
  • 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 September — that's when to go looking.

Its true colour

  • Its true colour. Measured through blue and visual filters it comes out orange (B−V 1) — cooler than the Sun, and the kind of star that burns steadily for tens of billions of years.

By the numbers

  • Surface temperature. Its colour puts the surface at roughly 4690 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.

What's in a name

  • Its catalogue. A Gliese number marks it as part of the census of the Sun's own neighbourhood — the catalogue of stars near enough to be our neighbours.

Properties

absmag
-9.18
bv
1.021
constellation
Phe
luminosity
409260.6597
mag
10.82
name
GL GJ 3005
spect
M5

About GL GJ 3005

GL GJ 3005 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Phe, shines at apparent magnitude 10.82 and has spectral type M5.

Its spectrum reads M5 — an M-type red star — and M stars are the silent majority: roughly three of every four stars in the galaxy are one.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 3005 in the constellation Phe. At apparent magnitude 10.82, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 3005 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 3005 is a trash star

GL GJ 3005 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Cool red M-type star and Red dwarf — 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.