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Denebola

Magnitude 1.77, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.

The numbers

Magnitude1.77
Colourwhite
Right ascension12.900h
Declination+55.96°
B−V index-0.02
CatalogueHR 4905

What you are looking at

Denebola shines at magnitude 1.77, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.02 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 12.90 hours and declination +56.0°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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