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Zosma

δ Leo. Magnitude 2.56, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.

The numbers

Designationδ Leo
Magnitude2.56
Colourwhite
Right ascension11.235h
Declination+20.52°
B−V index0.12
CatalogueHR 4357

What you are looking at

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

Zosma shines at magnitude 2.56, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of 0.12 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 11.24 hours and declination +20.5°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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