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Trash star 3 EP

GL Gl 11A

RA 3.3127° · Dec 69.3269° · star

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Score breakdown

· 1 badge
3 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Star +3
Total score 3

12 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 102 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 653 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 65.3 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1961.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 131 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
10.981
bv
1.4
constellation
Cep
dist ly
65.3489
mag
12.49
name
GL Gl 11A
spect
M6

About GL Gl 11A

GL Gl 11A is a trash star. It lies about 65.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cep, shines at apparent magnitude 12.49 and has spectral type M6.

GL Gl 11A is a trash star worth 3 points across 1 science badge. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 11A in the constellation Cep. At apparent magnitude 12.49, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 11A 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 11A is a trash star

GL Gl 11A scores 3 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 1 science badge — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.