• Girtab  Girtab is a star in Scorpius. ### ############# ################### ##################### ####################### ####################### ######################### ####################### ####################### ##################### ################### ############# ###  Type Blue-white giant  Constellation Scorpius  Magnitude 2.4  Spectral type B1.5III  Distance about 464 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer κ Sco  Yale HR 6580  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Girtab/about  40.00,-83.00 now · 11° up in the S · mag 2.4 · ↑ 16:07 ↓ 22:33 ⌃ 19:20  Girtab is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: the sky is still too bright.  No window in the next 40 days from this latitude.  It clears the horizon between about 36°N and 70°S: Big Bend or Chichen Itza.   You will find it in Scorpius.   It is a blue-white giant, roughly 464 light years away.   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 17° away, which will wash out anything faint nearby.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates