α Vir. Magnitude 0.98, blue-white. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.
Astronomers call it α Vir — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Spica is the name people actually use.
Spica shines at magnitude 0.98, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. Its B−V colour index of -0.23 makes it blue-white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of over 10,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 13.42 hours and declination -11.2°. It straddles the celestial equator, so it is visible from essentially anywhere on Earth at the right time of year.
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