RA 269.6627° · Dec -28.7591° · star
First charted by GsiorX · 20674d ago
17 more points to reach Anomaly.
HR 6692 is an epic star. It lies about 1,812 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr, shines at apparent magnitude 5.99 and has spectral type B3II/III.
Its spectrum reads B3II/III — a blue-white B-type star, with a surface tens of thousands of degrees hot and a life measured in tens of millions of years.
Look for HR 6692 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 5.99, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 6692 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.
HR 6692 scores 61 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 17 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 9 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Toward the galactic centre, On the zodiac, Hot blue B-type star, Bright giant and Blue-white 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.