Gliese 42

Gliese 42

UAS - Carbuncle

Union system - First surveyed in 2112 OTT. Space station and scooping operations started at around 3800 OTT. Before that, there was only an automated scanning station and a GalNet repeater.

Today
A massive Scoop processing station with over 70,000 employees and residents, processes the "Scoop " collected by a fleet of scooper ships. Both the scoopers and the station are owned and operated by Wolf Resources Inc.

There is a space bus connection (Weekly).

There are Union Schools and a Union hospital that are part of the station, as well as a post office.

The image shows a Gulliver class freighter docking to take on a load of refined scoop.

System Info

is a K3 V class star located in the night sky at Right ascension 00h 53m 01s and declination −30° 21′ 25″ in the constellation of the Sculptor and moving with a total Proper Motion of 0.622"/yr.

At a distance of 45.93 light Years (12.22 ± 1.58pc ) and an absolute magnitude of 6.40, this star has an apparent magnitude of 7.15 when viewed from earth.

The star itself has a temperature of 4800K, a mass of 74% that of the sun (estimated from a Mass–luminosity relation), and is spinning with a radial velocity of -7 km/s. There are no known planets accompanying Gliese 42 and its nearest stellar neighbours are Hip 4569, GJ 1031 and GJ 2021.

The star is also known as HD 5133, Hip 4148, cd-31° 325, YPC: 177.00 and LHS: 1163.

An infrared excess has been detected around this star, most likely indicating the presence of a circumstellar disk at a radius of 41.2 AU. The temperature of this dust is 32 K.[1]