RA 159.5110° · Dec -57.2563° · star
10 more points to reach Epic.
HR 4173 is a rare variable star. It lies about 1,006.7 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Car, shines at apparent magnitude 5.89 and has spectral type B3IV.
Its spectrum reads B3IV — 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 4173 in the constellation Car. At apparent magnitude 5.89, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, HR 4173 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 4173 scores 40 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 8 science badges — Variable star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Hot blue B-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), Blue-white star, Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) 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.