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GL GJ 1054B

RA 46.9911° · Dec -28.2213° · 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.

Hard to believe

  • True brightness. It pours out about 175.4 thousand times as much light as the Sun. It only looks ordinary because it is so far away.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 11.7 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Fornax.
  • 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 November — that's when to go looking.

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
-8.28
binary
yes
constellation
For
luminosity
178648.7575
mag
11.72
name
GL GJ 1054B

About GL GJ 1054B

GL GJ 1054B is a trash star. It sits in the constellation For and shines at apparent magnitude 11.72.

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 GJ 1054B in the constellation For. At apparent magnitude 11.72, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 1054B 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 1054B is a trash star

GL GJ 1054B 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.