B-type star · blue-white star
Kaus Australis
Also catalogued as 20Eps Sgr · HR 6879 · HD 169022 · HIP 90185
10,529 K
temperature
1.79
apparent magnitude
323× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
143 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
323×
the Sun's light output
-1.42
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.