• Regulus  Regulus is a star in Leo. ##### ########### ############### ################# ################# ################# ############### ########### #####  Type Blue-white main-sequence star  Constellation Leo  Magnitude 1.4  Spectral type B7V  Distance 78 light years  Double star components 177.6″ apart  You need binoculars from here  40.00,-83.00 now · 61° up in the SSE · mag 1.4 · ↑ 08:01 ↓ 21:26 ⌃ 14:44  Best in the next 12 months on 7 February 2027.  Regulus is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: the sky is still too bright.  It is only 17° from the Sun: too deep in the glare, and it stays that way for weeks.   You will find it in Leo.   It is a blue-white main-sequence star, 78 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1949.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, so for this you want binoculars from here.   Best in the next 12 months: 2027-02-07, when it reaches 62° with 9.4 hours of darkness and the Moon 0%  lit.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates