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Denebola

β Leo. Magnitude 2.14, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.

The numbers

Designationβ Leo
Magnitude2.14
Colourwhite
Right ascension11.818h
Declination+14.57°
B−V index0.09
CatalogueHR 4534

What you are looking at

Astronomers call it β Leo — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Denebola is the name people actually use.

Denebola shines at magnitude 2.14, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.09 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 11.82 hours and declination +14.6°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.

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