• Algieba  Algieba is a star in Leo. # ############### ##################### ######################### ########################### ############################# ############################### ############################### ################################# ############################### ############################### ############################# ########################### ######################### ##################### ############### #  Type Orange supergiant  Constellation Leo  Magnitude 2.6  Spectral type K1-IIIbFe-0.5  Distance 126 light years  Double star components 4.5″ apart  You need naked eye  40.00,-83.00 now · 61° up in the SW · mag 2.6 · ↑ 07:36 ↓ 22:00 ⌃ 14:48  Best in the next 12 months on 7 February 2027.  Algieba is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: the sky is still too bright.  It is only 18° from the Sun: too deep in the glare, and it stays that way for weeks.   You will find it in Leo.   It is a orange supergiant, 126 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1901.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.   Best in the next 12 months: 2027-02-07, when it reaches 70° with 9.6 hours of darkness and the Moon 0%  lit.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates