• Menkent  Menkent is a star in Centaurus. # ############### ##################### ######################### ########################### ############################# ############################### ############################### ################################# ############################### ############################### ############################# ########################### ######################### ##################### ############### #  Type Orange supergiant  Constellation Centaurus  Magnitude 2.1  Spectral type K0-IIIb  Distance 61 light years  Double star components 69.9″ apart  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer θ Cen  Yale HR 5288  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Menkent/about  40.00,-83.00 now · 12° up in the SSW · mag 2.1 · ↑ 12:10 ↓ 19:12 ⌃ 15:41  Menkent 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 6°N and 70°S: Galapagos or Machu Picchu.   You will find it in Centaurus.   It is a orange supergiant, 61 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1966.   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 56° away, which will wash out anything faint nearby.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates