RA 153.2548° · Dec -59.9181° · star
2 more points to reach Rare.
HR 4018 is an uncommon star. It lies about 2,434 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 6.07 and has spectral type B4Ve.
Its spectrum reads B4Ve — 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 4018 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 6.07, it is an easy target for binoculars.
Like any astronomical target, HR 4018 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 4018 scores 32 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Hot blue B-type star, Main-sequence 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.