Magnitude 0.03, white. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.
Vega shines at magnitude 0.03, making it a first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible. 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 18.62 hours and declination +38.8°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.
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