RA 328.0043° · Dec 55.7967° · star
3 more points to reach Epic.
HR 8357 is a rare star. It lies about 1,503 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cep, shines at apparent magnitude 5.7 and has spectral type B6IV-V.
Its spectrum reads B6IV-V — 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 8357 in the constellation Cep. At apparent magnitude 5.7, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 8357 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 8357 scores 47 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 8 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Hot blue B-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), Blue-white star 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.