Magnitude 1.68, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Alphard shines at magnitude 1.68, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.00 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 9.22 hours and declination -69.7°. It is deep in the southern sky and never rises for most of the northern hemisphere.
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