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Achernar

Magnitude 0.46, blue-white. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.

The numbers

Magnitude0.46
Colourblue-white
Right ascension1.629h
Declination-57.24°
B−V index-0.16
CatalogueHR 472

What you are looking at

Achernar shines at magnitude 0.46, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. Its B−V colour index of -0.16 makes it blue-white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of over 10,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 1.63 hours and declination -57.2°. It lies south of the celestial equator and sits low for northern observers, better the further south you go.

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