RA 181.0801° · Dec -63.1657° · star
26 more points to reach Anomaly.
The2Cru is an epic variable star. It lies about 853.8 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cru, shines at apparent magnitude 4.72 and has spectral type B2IV.
Its spectrum reads B2IV — 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 The2Cru in the constellation Cru. At apparent magnitude 4.72, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, The2Cru 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.
The2Cru scores 52 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 26 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 9 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Under the Southern Cross, Hot blue B-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), Blue-white star, Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) and Barely variable (under 0.05 mag) — 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.