RA 312.8677° · Dec 28.2505° · star
41 more points to reach Mythic.
HR 7988 is an anomaly variable star. It lies about 1,203.5 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Vul, shines at apparent magnitude 5.66 and has spectral type F5Ib.
Its spectrum reads F5Ib — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for HR 7988 in the constellation Vul. At apparent magnitude 5.66, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 7988 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 7988 scores 79 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 41 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 9 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Yellow-white F-type star, Supergiant, Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2), Strongly variable and Fades out of naked-eye view — 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.