RA 11.3258° · Dec 15.1658° · star
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HD 4270 is a trash star. It lies about 509.6 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Psc, shines at apparent magnitude 8.67 and has spectral type F3IV....
Its spectrum reads F3IV... — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for HD 4270 in the constellation Psc. At apparent magnitude 8.67, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 4270 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 4270 scores 14 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Star, On the zodiac, Yellow-white F-type star and Subgiant (leaving the main sequence) — 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.