Constellations
Corona Australis (CrA)
The Southern Crown
Also known as southern crown, corona austrina.
6 looks for Corona Australis
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Corona Australis
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Southern Crown
- IAU abbreviation
- CrA
- Its stars are named
- Coronae Australis (as in "Alpha Coronae Australis")
- Family
- Hercules family
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in August
- Centre
- Right ascension 19h 00m, declination −40° 01′
- The figure
- 8 stars joined by 7 lines
- Brightest star
- Meridiana, magnitude 4.11
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Meridiana (α CrA)mag 4.11
- β CrAmag 4.11
- γ CrAmag 4.21
- δ CrAmag 4.59
- θ CrAmag 4.64
- ζ CrAmag 4.75
- ε CrAmag 4.87
- η2 CrAmag 5.61
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation