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43 Sagittarii

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is 43 Sagittarii

43 Sagittarii burns with a warm orange light some 482 light-years away, calm and amber, in a stretch of sky that looks toward the galactic heart. It is an evolved K-class star, swollen and cool compared with the Sun —the very fate awaiting stars like ours once the hydrogen in their cores runs out. A mature flame among the young crowd of Sagittarius.

Where it is and when to see it

43 Sagittarii lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: 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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The signature wall

Stelvia's sky works like a signature wall: anyone can leave their name and a message on a real star, and that signature goes up on the map for everyone to read. Signing is free.

A signature without a lock can be replaced by someone else's. The lock makes the signature permanent and lets you choose a symbolic name for the star, always shown next to the star's catalogue identifier. How the lock works

If you don't have an account yet, we'll ask for an email to confirm it's you: we send you a link and that's it, no password.

Write my signature

A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.

Astronomical data for 43 Sagittarii

Constellation
Sagittarius
Apparent magnitude
4.88
Distance
481.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000)
RA 289.409° · Dec -18.953°
Catalogue
HIP 94820 · HD 180540

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Other stars in Sagittarius

Sagittarius has 117 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 117 stars in Sagittarius