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Kornephoros

β Her. Magnitude 2.77, yellow-orange. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.

The numbers

Designationβ Her
Magnitude2.77
Colouryellow-orange
Right ascension16.504h
Declination+21.49°
B−V index0.94
CatalogueHR 6148

What you are looking at

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

Kornephoros shines at magnitude 2.77, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.94 makes it yellow-orange to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 5,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 16.50 hours and declination +21.5°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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