RA 281.7500° · Dec -50.8223° · star
6 more points to reach Uncommon.
HD 173264 is a common star. It sits in the constellation Tel, shines at apparent magnitude 8.2 and has spectral type B8Vn....
Its spectrum reads B8Vn... — 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 HD 173264 in the constellation Tel. At apparent magnitude 8.2, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 173264 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 173264 scores 16 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, Hot blue B-type star, Main-sequence star 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.