RA 183.7864° · Dec -58.7489° · star
18 more points to reach Anomaly.
Imai is an epic variable star. It lies about 345.1 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cru, shines at apparent magnitude 2.79 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 Imai in the constellation Cru. At apparent magnitude 2.79, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
Like any astronomical target, Imai 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.
Imai scores 60 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 10 science badges — Variable star, Naked-eye visible, Has a proper name, Under the Southern Cross, Hot blue B-type star, Subgiant (leaving the main sequence), 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.