Star profile
Kappa Trianguli Australis
Highly luminous starWhat is Kappa Trianguli Australis
Kappa Trianguli Australis is a distant beacon, more than twelve hundred light-years away, in the small Southern Triangle charted by sixteenth-century European navigators. Its apparent brightness is misleading: to reach us from such a distance it must be intrinsically luminous, a yellow G-type giant burning far more powerfully than the Sun. A golden, ancient flame at the edge of an old explorers' triangle.
Where it is and when to see it
Kappa Trianguli Australis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 55° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 21° N.
It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 21 stars of Triangulum Australe in our catalogue. To find it, start from Atria, the brightest: it lies about 5° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,200 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Kappa Trianguli Australis
- Constellation
- Triangulum Australe
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.11
- Distance
- 1208.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 238.873° · Dec -68.603°
- Catalogue
- HIP 77982 · HD 141767
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Other stars in Triangulum Australe
Triangulum Australe has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AtriaAlpha Trianguli Australis1.91
- Beta Trianguli Australis2.83
- Gamma Trianguli Australis2.87
- Epsilon Trianguli Australis4.11
- Zeta Trianguli Australis4.90
- HIP 821295.10
- HIP 808745.19
- Iota Trianguli Australis5.28