Magnitude 2.95, orange-red. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Menkar shines at magnitude 2.95, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 1.59 makes it orange-red to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of under 4,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 3.97 hours and declination -13.5°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.
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