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Vega

Magnitude 0.03, white. A first-magnitude star, among the brightest few dozen visible.

The numbers

Magnitude0.03
Colourwhite
Right ascension18.616h
Declination+38.78°
B−V index0.00
CatalogueHR 7001

What you are looking at

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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