Constellations
The Teapot
In Sagittarius
6 looks for The Teapot
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 The Teapot
- What it is
- A star pattern: The brightest stars of the Archer, shaped like a teapot
- Family
- Famous star patterns
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in August
- Centre
- Right ascension 18h 39m, declination −28° 58′
- The figure
- 8 stars joined by 10 lines
- Brightest star
- Kaus Australis, magnitude 1.85
It sits in Sagittarius.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Kaus Australis (ε Sgr)mag 1.85
- Nunki (σ Sgr)mag 2.02
- Ascella (ζ Sgr)mag 2.60
- Kaus Media (δ Sgr)mag 2.70
- Kaus Borealis (λ Sgr)mag 2.81
- Alnasl (γ2 Sgr)mag 2.99
- Namalsadirah (φ Sgr)mag 3.17
- τ Sgrmag 3.32
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