swap_horiz Kaus Australis Alternatives

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Hadar

Hadar, also called Beta Centauri, is a triple star system in Centaurus and one of the two pointer stars used to locate t...

Navigation Giant Centaurus B Type

8.6 Great

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Shaula

Shaula is the second-brightest star in Scorpius, a multiple-star system about 570 light-years away that marks the tip of...

Bright Multiple Scorpius B Type

8.3 Great

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Etamin

Gamma Draconis, the brightest star in Draco, an orange giant about 154 light-years away; James Bradley's observations of...

Bright Orange Giant Draco

8.3 Great

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Adhara

Adhara is the brightest star in Canis Major after Sirius, a blue supergiant about 430 light-years away and one of the st...

Binary Giant B Type Canis Majoris

8.2 Great

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Bellatrix

Bellatrix is the third-brightest star in Orion, a blue giant about 250 light-years away that marks the hunter's left sho...

Blue Navigation Orion Giant

8.1 Great

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Alpheratz

Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae) was historically shared between Andromeda and Pegasus as Delta Pegasi, forming a corner of...

Hot Giant Andromeda B Type

8.1 Great

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Schedar

Schedar (Alpha Cassiopeiae) is an orange giant roughly 228 light-years away and the brightest star in the W-shaped const...

Bright Orange Giant Cassiopeia

7.9 Good

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Elnath

Elnath, also called Beta Tauri, is a blue-white giant shared on the border of Taurus and Auriga, about 130 light-years a...

Bright Giant Taurus B Type

7.8 Good

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Miaplacidus

Miaplacidus is the second-brightest star in Carina, a blue-white giant about 113 light-years away and one of the brighte...

Bright Giant Southern A Type

7.8 Good

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Mirzam

Beta Canis Majoris, a blue-white giant roughly 500 light-years away that serves as the prototype for the class of pulsat...

Blue Giant Variable B Type

7.8 Good

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Rasalhague

Alpha Ophiuchi, the brightest star in Ophiuchus, a binary star with a white primary about 47 light-years away; its Arabi...

Bright Binary Giant Ophiuchus

7.8 Good

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Caph

Beta Cassiopeiae, one of the five stars forming Cassiopeia's distinctive W-shape, a yellow-white pulsating giant about 5...

Bright Giant Cassiopeia Variable

7.7 Good

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Markab

Markab (Alpha Pegasi) is a blue-white giant forming one corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, an asterism used as a gui...

Hot Giant Pegasus B Type

7.7 Good

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Aludra

Eta Canis Majoris, a blue supergiant roughly 3,000 light-years away in Canis Major and one of the most intrinsically lum...

Blue Bright Supergiant B Type

7.7 Good

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Alhena

Gamma Geminorum, a white giant in Gemini about 109 light-years away and one of the brighter stars in this zodiacal const...

Bright Binary Giant Gemini

7.6 Good

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Alnair

Alnair is the brightest star in Grus, a blue-white subgiant about 101 light-years away whose name derives from Arabic me...

Bright Southern Grus B Type

7.5 Good

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Nunki

Sigma Sagittarii, the second-brightest star in Sagittarius, a blue-white main-sequence star about 228 light-years away a...

Bright Sagittarius B Type Main Sequence

7.5 Good

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Ascella

Zeta Sagittarii, a binary star system in Sagittarius and one of the brighter members of the Teapot asterism, whose IAU-a...

Bright Binary Sagittarius A Type

7.2 Good

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Paikauhale

τ Scorpii (Paikauhale) is a hot blue giant in Scorpius notable for strong stellar winds and X-ray emission, bearing a Ha...

Blue Bright Giant Scorpius

7.2 Good

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Kraz

β Corvi (Kraz) is the second-brightest star in Corvus, a yellow-white bright giant of spectral type G5, located approxim...

Blue Bright Giant Corvus

7.1 Good