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Kaus Australis (ε Sgr) Sgr 8mag 2022-01-21 17:00:00 skybber 2022-02-11 15:36:36.184446

the brightest star in the constellation (1.85mag). It is located in the southern part of the bow and reaches a maximum height of 7 degrees above the southern horizon at the time of culmination. It is white in colour. At a distance of 125 light years it shines like 250 suns. It is also an optical double star, and to the northwest about 3.3 arc minutes is a seventh magnitude guide star, which we can discover by binocular.