K-type star · orange
Kaus Media
Kaus Media is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 348 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,983 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 808× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 348 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta 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
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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.