• Sargas  Sargas is a star in Scorpius. ### ############### ################### ####################### ######################### ########################### ########################### ############################# ########################### ########################### ######################### ####################### ################### ############### ###  Type Yellow-white bright giant  Constellation Scorpius  Magnitude 1.9  Spectral type F1II  Distance 272 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer θ Sco  Yale HR 6553  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Sargas/about  40.00,-83.00 now · 0° up in the SSE · mag 1.9 · ↑ 16:35 ↓ 21:55 ⌃ 19:15  Sargas is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: too low, under 8°, so trees and buildings will be in the way.  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 Scorpius.   It is a yellow-white bright giant, 272 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1754.   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 19° away, which will wash out anything faint nearby.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates