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Sheliak

β Lyr. Magnitude 3.45, white. Visible to the naked eye from a reasonably dark site.

The numbers

Designationβ Lyr
Magnitude3.45
Colourwhite
Right ascension18.835h
Declination+33.36°
B−V index0.00
CatalogueHR 7106

What you are looking at

Astronomers call it β Lyr — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Sheliak is the name people actually use.

Sheliak shines at magnitude 3.45, making it visible to the naked eye from a reasonably dark site. Its B−V colour index of 0.00 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 18.83 hours and declination +33.4°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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