Constellations
Triangulum Australe (TrA)
The Southern Triangle
Also known as southern triangle.
6 looks for Triangulum Australe
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 Triangulum Australe
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Southern Triangle
- IAU abbreviation
- TrA
- Its stars are named
- Trianguli Australis (as in "Alpha Trianguli Australis")
- Family
- Hercules family
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in July
- Centre
- Right ascension 16h 00m, declination −67° 17′
- The figure
- 3 stars joined by 3 lines
- Brightest star
- Atria, magnitude 1.92
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Atria (α TrA)mag 1.92
- β TrAmag 2.85
- γ TrAmag 2.89
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