RA 267.5463° · Dec -40.0904° · star
25 more points to reach Anomaly.
Iot2Sco is an epic star. It lies about 2,548.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sco, shines at apparent magnitude 4.78 and has spectral type A6Ib.
Its spectrum reads A6Ib — 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 Iot2Sco in the constellation Sco. At apparent magnitude 4.78, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Iot2Sco 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.
Iot2Sco scores 53 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 25 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, On the zodiac, White A-type star, Supergiant and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — 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.