K-type star · orange

Kaus Media

348 lybrightness mag 2.72K3III

Also catalogued as 19Del Sgr · HR 6859 · HD 168454 · HIP 89931

3,983 K

temperature

2.72

apparent magnitude

808× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

348 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

808×

the Sun's light output

-2.42

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kaus MediaK-type

Sky regionSagittariusthis direction

StarHR 676621 ly

StarHR 677723 ly

StarHR 673942 ly

StarKaus Australisstar

StarNunkistar

Nearest stars

HR 6766 →21 ly apart
HR 6777 →23 ly apart
HR 6739 →42 ly apart
HR 7026 →51 ly apart
HR 7103 →53 ly apart
HR 6889 →55 ly apart

Bright stars in Sagittarius

Kaus Australis →mag 1.8
Nunki →mag 2.0
Ascella →mag 2.6
Kaus Borealis →mag 2.8
Albaldah →mag 2.9
Alnasl →mag 3.0
Eta Sgr →mag 3.1
27Phi Sgr →mag 3.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.