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Groombridge 1618

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The Groombridge 1618 System
Right Ascension	10h 11m
Declination	+49° 27'
Distance	15.85 ± 0.05 ly
Spectral Class	K7V
Estimated Mass	0.64 × Sol
Luminosity	0.046 × Sol

Star charts
Groombridge 1618 as seen from Sol.	Sol as seen from Groombridge 1618.

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Brightest stars as seen from Groombridge 1618
Includes all stars of magnitude 1.00 and brighter
Star	Magnitude	Distance
Canopus	−0.57	315.7
Arcturus	−0.41	31.0
Alpha Aurigae (Capella)	−0.41	34.2
Sirius	0.02	16.7
Rigel	0.18	862.0
Vega	0.21	27.2
Pollux	0.30	22.7
Betelgeuse	0.42	492.2
Beta Centauri (Hadar)	0.65	400.0
Achernar	0.66	153.3
Procyon	0.68	13.1
Aldebaran	0.78	64.0
Alpha Crucis (Acrux)	0.82	329.2
Spica	0.95	245.8
Castor	0.99	38.8

Local Space

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Stargates in this system
Destination	Distance
61 Ursae Majoris	17.8
Lalande 21185	8.2
Pollux	22.7

Details for this system are not yet ready.

Further reading

Fictional depictions of the Groombridge 1618 system

Imagination is vaster than all of space.

Groombridge 1618 in Wikipedia: Stars and planetary systems in fiction.

Nonfictional links

Just the facts.

Groombridge 1618 in the ARI Database for Nearby Stars.
Groombridge 1618 in the Internet Stellar Database.
Groombridge 1618 in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database.
Groombridge 1618 in Solstation.
Groombridge 1618 in Wikipedia.

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