Magnitude 2.02, yellow-orange. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Polaris shines at magnitude 2.02, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.60 makes it yellow-orange to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 5,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 2.53 hours and declination +89.3°. It is circumpolar from most of the northern hemisphere, meaning it never sets and can be found on any clear night.
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