RA 130.8981° · Dec -33.1864° · star
12 more points to reach Epic.
Alp Pyx is a rare star. It lies about 879.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Pyx, shines at apparent magnitude 3.68 and has spectral type B1.5III.
Its spectrum reads B1.5III — 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 Alp Pyx in the constellation Pyx. At apparent magnitude 3.68, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Alp Pyx 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.
Alp Pyx scores 38 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 12 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star, Giant star, 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.