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Common star 20 EP

GL GJ 9326

RA 155.5441° · Dec 41.2295° · star

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
20 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) +4
  • Star +3
  • Yellow-white F-type star +3
  • Main-sequence star +2
Total score 20

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Never sets (northern circumpolar) · +4
  • Yellow-white F-type star · +3
  • Main-sequence star · +2

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads F7V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is on the main sequence, quietly fusing hydrogen in its core exactly as the Sun does.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 5.7 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Ursa Major.
  • 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 February — 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. ≈ 2.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
2.751
bv
0.531
constellation
UMa
dist ly
128.6105
luminosity
6.9119
mag
5.73
name
GL GJ 9326
spect
F7V

About GL GJ 9326

GL GJ 9326 is a common star. It lies about 128.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation UMa, shines at apparent magnitude 5.73 and has spectral type F7V.

Its spectrum reads F7V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.

How to see it

Look for GL GJ 9326 in the constellation UMa. At apparent magnitude 5.73, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, GL GJ 9326 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 9326 is a common star

GL GJ 9326 scores 20 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence 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.