RA 136.4099° · Dec -70.5385° · star
4 more points to reach Epic.
HR 3642 is a rare variable star. It lies about 967.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 4.66 and has spectral type B2IVe.
Its spectrum reads B2IVe — 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 3642 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 4.66, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 3642 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 3642 scores 46 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 8 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), Blue-white star, Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2), Gently variable and A named variable 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.