Magnitude 1.65, blue-white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Elnath shines at magnitude 1.65, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.13 makes it blue-white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of over 10,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 5.44 hours and declination +28.6°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.
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