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Pollux

Magnitude 1.14, orange-red. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.

The numbers

Magnitude1.14
Colourorange-red
Right ascension7.755h
Declination+28.03°
B−V index1.00
CatalogueHR 2990

What you are looking at

Pollux shines at magnitude 1.14, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. Its B−V colour index of 1.00 makes it orange-red to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of under 4,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 7.76 hours and declination +28.0°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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