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Trash star 14 EP

GL Gl 54

RA 17.5939° · Dec -67.4450° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
14 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Deep red star +8
  • Star +3
  • Orange K-type star +3
Total score 14

1 more point to reach Common.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Orange K-type star · +3
  • Deep red star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads K — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

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 9.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Tucana.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • 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. ≈ 469.6 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 41.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
10.233
bv
1.568
constellation
Tuc
dist ly
26.7252
luminosity
0.007
mag
9.8
name
GL Gl 54
spect
K

About GL Gl 54

GL Gl 54 is a trash star. It lies about 26.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tuc, shines at apparent magnitude 9.8 and has spectral type K.

Its spectrum reads K — a K-type star. Orange K dwarfs are the marathon runners of the galaxy, burning steadily for tens of billions of years.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 54 in the constellation Tuc. At apparent magnitude 9.8, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 54 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 54 is a trash star

GL Gl 54 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, Orange K-type 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.