Kaus Australis
The brightest star of Sagittarius, at the bottom of the Teapot.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.79, the 37th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 143 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white giant, spectral type B9.5 III
- Light it gives out
- About 320 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Sagittarius, where it is ε Sagittarii
- Catalogue number
- HIP 90185
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Ptolemy’s ClusterAn open cluster in Scorpius, about three fingers away.
- Butterfly ClusterAn open cluster in Scorpius, about a fist away.
- ShaulaA blue-white subgiant in Scorpius, about a fist away.
- Sagittarius ClusterA globular cluster in Sagittarius, about a fist away.
- Lagoon NebulaA nebula in Sagittarius, about a fist away.