Magnitude -1.46, white. One of the very brightest stars in the entire sky.
Sirius shines at magnitude -1.46, making it one of the very brightest stars in the entire sky. 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 6.75 hours and declination -16.7°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.
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