● Achernar  Achernar is a star in Eridanus. ##### ########### ############### ################# ################# ################# ############### ########### #####  Type Blue-white main-sequence star  Constellation Eridanus  Magnitude 0.5  Spectral type B3Vpe  Distance 144 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer α Eri  Yale HR 472  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Achernar/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag 0.5 · never rises from here  Achernar is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: below the horizon.  No window in the next 40 days from this latitude.  It clears the horizon south of about 20°N: Tikal or Teotihuacan.   Achernar never rises from 40.00,-83.00. It stays below the horizon all year at this latitude.   You will find it in Eridanus.   It is a blue-white main-sequence star, 144 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1883.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates