RA 275.3458° · Dec -18.8600° · star
36 more points to reach Mythic.
HR 6863 is an anomaly variable star. It lies about 1,235.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr, shines at apparent magnitude 5.76 and has spectral type F8II.
Its spectrum reads F8II — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for HR 6863 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 5.76, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 6863 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 6863 scores 84 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 36 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 11 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Toward the galactic centre, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star, Bright giant 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.