TY Coronae Australis

TY Coronae Australis
	; The y band (near infrared) light curve for TY Coronae Australis, adapted from Vaz et al. (1998)
Observation data; Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 (ICRS)
Constellation	Corona Australis
Right ascension	19h 01m 40.83122s
Declination	−36° 52′ 33.8018″
Apparent magnitude (V)	9.39
Characteristics
Spectral type	B9e
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ)	RA: −2.147 ± 0.239 mas/yr ; Dec.: −32.723 ± 0.226 mas/yr
Parallax (π)	7.3290 ± 0.1456 mas
Distance	445 ± 9 ly ; (136 ± 3 pc)
Details
Other designations
	TY CrA, SAO 210829, CD−37° 13024
Database references
SIMBAD	data

TY Coronae Australis (abbreviated as TY CrA), is a young star system around 3 million years old in the constellation Corona Australis. It is composed of a blue-white B-class star around triple the Sun's mass and a cooler smaller companion around half its mass (or 1.6 times that of the Sun). The system is an eclipsing binary with a period of 2.8 days.

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