α PsA. Magnitude 1.16, white. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.
Astronomers call it α PsA — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Fomalhaut is the name people actually use.
Fomalhaut shines at magnitude 1.16, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. 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 22.96 hours and declination -29.6°. It lies south of the celestial equator and sits low for northern observers, better the further south you go.
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