♐︎ The lucky star of Sagittarius: Kaus Australis
The brightest star in the constellation Sagittarius (ε Sgr), magnitude 1.85.
The name mixes Arabic and Latin and means 'southern bow'. It is the brightest star of Sagittarius, about 140 light years away, and seen from mid-northern latitudes it always stands low in the south.
It stands highest around 10 pm in August. It can be seen from everywhere south of 52°N, and it never sets south of 74°S.
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More on the constellation: Sagittarius · The lucky stone: Turquoise
The zodiac sign and the constellation of the same name no longer lie over each other, because the Earth's axis has turned in two thousand years: the true constellation.