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GJ 3236

GJ 3236 is a main-sequence star of spectral type ? in the constellation Cassiopeia, 120.6 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationCassiopeia
Distance120.6 light-years (37.0 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 14.17
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 11.33
Spectral type?
Surface temperature3,650 K
Luminosity0.0113 L☉
Radius0.266 R☉
Mass0.27 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)3h 37m 11.5s
Declination (J2000)+69° 11′ 03″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)34.4 km/s

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.17. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 21° S. North of latitude 21° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in November, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1905. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.1 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around GJ 3236, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 7.67, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Triangulum Australe. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

Neighbours

Its nearest neighbours in the catalogue (within 20 light-years):

  • HIP 19959 9.29 light-years
  • HIP 11111 13.9 light-years
  • HIP 13179 14.4 light-years
  • GJ 3251 15.1 light-years
  • HIP 21921 15.8 light-years
  • GJ 3206 17.0 light-years
  • HIP 22615 18.3 light-years
  • 48 Cas 18.4 light-years

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Position, brightness and colour from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue; temperature, luminosity, radius and mass are approximate values computed from these observations.