Magnitude 2.23, orange-red. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Eltanin shines at magnitude 2.23, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 1.52 makes it orange-red to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of under 4,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 17.94 hours and declination +51.5°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.
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