Atmospheric windows in the infrared. The J band is the transmission window (1.1 to 1.4 μm) centred on 1.25 micrometres. (The gap between the J band and lower bands is too small to be visible at this scale; as a result they blend together and appear to comprise a single, contigous band.)
Betelgeuse is the brightest near-IR source in the sky with a J band magnitude of −2.99.[1] The next brightest stars in the J band are Antares (−2.7), R Doradus (−2.6), Arcturus (−2.2), and Aldebaran (−2.1).[2] In the J band Sirius is the 9th brightest star.
The J band is a frequent source of ground based observations since the wavelengths it covers pass through clouds and other atmospheric gasses.[3] The waveband does however suffer from contamination by water vapor lines and hydroxide emission lines leading to relatively high photometric error.[4]
^Simons, D. A.; Tokunaga, A. T. (February 2002). "The Mauna Kea Observatories Near-Infrared Filter Set. I: Defining Optimal 1-5 $\mu$m Bandpasses". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 114 (792): 169–179. arXiv:astro-ph/0110594. doi:10.1086/338544. ISSN0004-6280. S2CID7880289.