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Sulafat

γ Lyr. Magnitude 3.24, white. Visible to the naked eye from a reasonably dark site.

The numbers

Designationγ Lyr
Magnitude3.24
Colourwhite
Right ascension18.982h
Declination+32.69°
B−V index-0.05
CatalogueHR 7178

What you are looking at

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

Sulafat shines at magnitude 3.24, making it visible to the naked eye from a reasonably dark site. Its B−V colour index of -0.05 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 18.98 hours and declination +32.7°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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