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: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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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