About GL Gl 46
GL Gl 46 is a trash star. It lies about 40.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Scl and shines at apparent magnitude 11.77.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3710 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 11 EP
GL Gl 46
RA 14.6160° · Dec -27.8570° · star
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Deep red star +8
- Star +3
Total score 11
4 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- Deep red star · +8
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 11.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Sculptor.
- 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 October — 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. ≈ 708 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 62.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 403 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 11.311
- bv
- 1.558
- constellation
- Scl
- dist ly
- 40.291
- luminosity
- 0.0026
- mag
- 11.77
- name
- GL Gl 46
How to see it
Look for GL Gl 46 in the constellation Scl. At apparent magnitude 11.77, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 46 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 46 is a trash star
GL Gl 46 scores 11 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Deep red 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.