About GL Gl 268.3
GL Gl 268.3 is a trash star. It lies about 39.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Gem and shines at apparent magnitude 10.83.
Its colour puts the surface at roughly 3760 K, against the Sun's 5778 K.
Trash star 14 EP
GL Gl 268.3
RA 109.0824° · Dec 27.1425° · star
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Deep red star +8
- Star +3
- On the zodiac +3
Total score 14
1 more point to reach Common.
Badges
- Star · +3
- On the zodiac · +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 10.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Gemini.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — 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. ≈ 689.8 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 61.3 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 393 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Properties
- absmag
- 10.428
- bv
- 1.52
- constellation
- Gem
- dist ly
- 39.2532
- luminosity
- 0.0059
- mag
- 10.83
- name
- GL Gl 268.3
How to see it
Look for GL Gl 268.3 in the constellation Gem. At apparent magnitude 10.83, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 268.3 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 268.3 is a trash star
GL Gl 268.3 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, On the zodiac 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.