Magnitude 1.85, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.
Kaus Australis shines at magnitude 1.85, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.03 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.
It sits at right ascension 18.40 hours and declination -34.4°. It lies south of the celestial equator and sits low for northern observers, better the further south you go.
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