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Common star 15 EP

GL Gl 408

RA 165.0178° · Dec 22.8330° · star

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Star +3
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 381.8 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 33.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 217 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 21.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2004.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 43.5 years round-trip.

Properties

absmag
10.912
bv
1.525
constellation
Leo
dist ly
21.7292
mag
10.03
name
GL Gl 408
spect
M3

About GL Gl 408

GL Gl 408 is a common star. It lies about 21.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Leo, shines at apparent magnitude 10.03 and has spectral type M3.

GL Gl 408 is a common star worth 15 points across 2 science badges. Explore its facts, badges and place on the sky map, then add it to your dex on Spacedle.

How to see it

Look for GL Gl 408 in the constellation Leo. At apparent magnitude 10.03, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, GL Gl 408 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 408 is a common star

GL Gl 408 scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 2 science badges — Star and Nearby (<25 ly) — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.