Star profile
Sargas
Theta Scorpii · Scorpius
Highly luminous starWhat is Sargas
Sargas shines in the tail of the Scorpion, a luminous F-type giant lying 300 light-years away. Its name, drawn from a very old Sumerian root, has travelled through civilisations almost as long as its own light. It accompanies Shaula as one of the two stingers that close the celestial scorpion, a constellation the Babylonians already deemed ominous and which marked the turning of the year for Polynesian navigators. Its pale yellow tint betrays a temperature close to the Sun's, but a far greater girth.
Where it is and when to see it
Sargas 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 Sargas
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 1.86
- Distance
- 300.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 264.330° · Dec -42.998°
- Catalogue
- HIP 86228 · HD 159532
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Other stars in Scorpius
Scorpius has 104 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AntaresAlpha Scorpii1.06
- ShaulaLambda Scorpii1.62
- DschubbaDelta Scorpii2.29
- LarawagEpsilon Scorpii2.29
- Kappa Scorpii2.39
- AcrabBeta 1 Scorpii2.56
- LesathUpsilon Scorpii2.70
- PaikauhaleTau Scorpii2.82