β Ori. Magnitude 0.12, white. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.
Astronomers call it β Ori — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Rigel is the name people actually use.
Rigel shines at magnitude 0.12, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. Its B−V colour index of -0.03 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 5.24 hours and declination -8.2°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.
SkyRef shows exactly where Rigel is from your location right now — altitude, compass direction, and rise and set times.