Magnitude 2.06, blue-white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Bellatrix shines at magnitude 2.06, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.17 makes it blue-white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of over 10,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 5.80 hours and declination -9.7°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.
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