RA 33.1224° · Dec 79.6933° · star
3 more points to reach Common.
HD 12881 is a trash star. It lies about 451.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cep, shines at apparent magnitude 7.17 and has spectral type Am....
Its spectrum reads Am... — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for HD 12881 in the constellation Cep. At apparent magnitude 7.17, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HD 12881 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 12881 scores 12 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Never sets (northern circumpolar) and White A-type 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.