Magnitude 0.50, orange-red. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.
Betelgeuse shines at magnitude 0.50, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. Its B−V colour index of 1.85 makes it orange-red to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of under 4,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 5.92 hours and declination +7.4°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.
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