• Ankaa  Ankaa is a star in Phoenix. ### ############# ################### ##################### ####################### ####################### ######################### ####################### ####################### ##################### ################### ############# ###  Type Orange giant  Constellation Phoenix  Magnitude 2.4  Spectral type K0III  Distance 77 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer α Phe  Yale HR 99  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Ankaa/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag 2.4 · ↑ 23:15 ↓ 04:50+1 ⌃ 02:02  Ankaa 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 33°N and 70°S: Big Bend or Chichen Itza.   You will find it in Phoenix.   It is a orange giant, 77 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1949.   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