• Alnair  Alnair is a star in Grus. ########### ############### ################### ################### ################### ################### ################### ############### ###########  Type Blue-white subgiant  Constellation Grus  Magnitude 1.7  Spectral type B7IV  Distance 101 light years  Double star components 28.4″ apart  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer α Gru  Yale HR 8425  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Alnair/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag 1.7 · ↑ 21:50 ↓ 01:40+1 ⌃ 23:45  Alnair 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 30°N and 70°S: Big Bend or Chichen Itza.   You will find it in Grus.   It is a blue-white subgiant, 101 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1925.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.   The Moon is 60% lit and only 46° away, which will wash out anything faint nearby.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates