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Barnard’s Star

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The Barnard’s Star System
Right Ascension	17h 58m
Declination	+04° 42'
Distance	5.963 ± 0.011 ly
Spectral Class	M4V
Estimated Mass	0.17 × Sol
Luminosity	0.0004 × Sol

Star charts
Barnard’s Star as seen from Sol.	Sol as seen from Barnard’s Star.

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Brightest stars as seen from Barnard’s Star
Includes all stars of magnitude 1.00 and brighter
Star	Magnitude	Distance
Canopus	−0.59	313.2
Vega	−0.41	20.5
Sirius	−0.31	14.4
Arcturus	−0.23	33.8
Altair	0.02	11.8
Rigel	0.20	868.7
Alpha Aurigae (Capella)	0.27	46.8
Betelgeuse	0.48	503.8
Achernar	0.48	141.3
Alpha Centauri (Toliman)	0.59	6.5
Beta Centauri (Hadar)	0.60	391.0
Alpha Crucis (Acrux)	0.77	322.1
Spica	0.97	247.7

Local Space

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Stargates in this system
Destination	Distance
61 Cygni A	9.3
70 Ophiuchi A	10.7
Sol	6.0

Details for this system are not yet ready.

Further reading

Fictional depictions of the Barnard’s Star system

Imagination is vaster than all of space.

Barnard’s Star in Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki).
Barnard’s Star in Wikipedia: Stars and planetary systems in fiction.

Nonfictional links

Just the facts.

Barnard’s Star in the ARI Database for Nearby Stars.
Barnard’s Star in the Internet Stellar Database.
Barnard’s Star in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database.
Barnard’s Star in Solstation.
Barnard’s Star in Stars.
Barnard’s Star in Wikipedia.

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