Magnitude 0.96, orange-red. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.
Antares shines at magnitude 0.96, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. Its B−V colour index of 1.83 makes it orange-red to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of under 4,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 16.49 hours and declination -26.4°. It lies south of the celestial equator and sits low for northern observers, better the further south you go.
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