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Markab

Magnitude 2.49, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.

The numbers

Magnitude2.49
Colourwhite
Right ascension23.079h
Declination+15.21°
B−V index-0.04
CatalogueHR 8781

What you are looking at

Markab shines at magnitude 2.49, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.04 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 23.08 hours and declination +15.2°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.

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