δ Cas. Magnitude 2.68, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Astronomers call it δ Cas — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Ruchbah is the name people actually use.
Ruchbah shines at magnitude 2.68, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.13 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 1.43 hours and declination +60.2°. 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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