RA 99.0922° · Dec 27.9344° · star
7 more points to reach Common.
HD 260222 is a trash star. It lies about 916.2 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aur, shines at apparent magnitude 12.56 and has spectral type F2V.
Its spectrum reads F2V — an F-type star — a little hotter, whiter and shorter-lived than the Sun.
Look for HD 260222 in the constellation Aur. At apparent magnitude 12.56, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, HD 260222 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 260222 scores 8 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 7 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Yellow-white F-type star and Main-sequence 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.