RA 287.0696° · Dec -19.2903° · star
20 more points to reach Anomaly.
HR 7249 is an epic variable star. It lies about 1,294.3 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Sgr, shines at apparent magnitude 5.56 and has spectral type B2V.
Its spectrum reads B2V — 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 7249 in the constellation Sgr. At apparent magnitude 5.56, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 7249 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 7249 scores 58 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 20 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, 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.