λ Sco. Magnitude 1.63, blue-white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Astronomers call it λ Sco — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Shaula is the name people actually use.
Shaula shines at magnitude 1.63, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.22 makes it blue-white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of over 10,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 17.56 hours and declination -37.1°. It lies south of the celestial equator and sits low for northern observers, better the further south you go.
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