RA 66.8699° · Dec 11.2123° · star
9 more points to reach Rare.
HR 1402 is an uncommon star. It lies about 587.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Tau, shines at apparent magnitude 5.87 and has spectral type B8IV.
Its spectrum reads B8IV — 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 1402 in the constellation Tau. At apparent magnitude 5.87, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 1402 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 1402 scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, On the zodiac, Hot blue B-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.