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Rigil Kentaurus

Magnitude -0.01, yellow-orange. One of the very brightest stars in the entire sky.

The numbers

Magnitude-0.01
Colouryellow-orange
Right ascension14.660h
Declination-60.84°
B−V index0.71
CatalogueHR 5459

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Rigil Kentaurus shines at magnitude -0.01, making it one of the very brightest stars in the entire sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.71 makes it yellow-orange to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 5,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 14.66 hours and declination -60.8°. It is deep in the southern sky and never rises for most of the northern hemisphere.

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