RA 264.3595° · Dec -45.8133° · star
5 more points to reach Common.
HD 159515 is a trash star. It sits in the constellation Ara, shines at apparent magnitude 9.38 and has spectral type A3Vp....
Its spectrum reads A3Vp... — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for HD 159515 in the constellation Ara. At apparent magnitude 9.38, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, HD 159515 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.
HD 159515 scores 10 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, White A-type star and Main-sequence star — 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.