RA 168.5600° · Dec 15.4296° · star
16 more points to reach Epic.
Chertan is a rare star. It lies about 165.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Leo, shines at apparent magnitude 3.33 and has spectral type A2V.
Its spectrum reads A2V — an A-type star: white-hot, typically about twice the Sun's mass, and the class most of the sky's famous bright stars belong to.
Look for Chertan in the constellation Leo. At apparent magnitude 3.33, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Chertan 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.
Chertan scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, On the zodiac, White A-type star, Main-sequence star and Blue-white 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.