• Acrux  Acrux is a star in Crux. ########### ############### ################### ################### ################### ################### ################### ############### ###########  Type Blue-white subgiant  Constellation Crux  Magnitude 1.3  Spectral type B0.5IV  Distance 321 light years  Double star components 4.4″ apart  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer α¹ Cru  Yale HR 4730  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Acrux/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag 1.3 · never rises from here  Acrux 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 between about 17°S and 70°S: Atacama or Iguazu.   Acrux never rises from 40.00,-83.00. It stays below the horizon all year at this latitude.   You will find it in Crux.   It is a blue-white subgiant, 321 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1706.   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