Magnitude 2.27, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Mizar shines at magnitude 2.27, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.02 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 13.40 hours and declination +54.9°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.
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