• Kraz  Kraz is a star in Corvus. ### ############### ################### ####################### ######################### ########################### ########################### ############################# ########################### ########################### ######################### ####################### ################### ############### ###  Type Yellow bright giant  Constellation Corvus  Magnitude 2.6  Spectral type G5II  Distance 140 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer β Crv  Yale HR 4786  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Kraz/about  40.00,-83.00 now · 17° up in the SW · mag 2.6 · ↑ 09:32 ↓ 18:46 ⌃ 14:09  Best in the next 12 months on 7 April 2027.  Kraz is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: the sky is still too bright.  No window in the next 40 days from this latitude.  It clears the horizon between about 40°S and 70°S: Torres del Paine or Aoraki Mackenzie.   You will find it in Corvus.   It is a yellow bright giant, 140 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1887.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.   Best in the next 12 months: 2027-04-07, when it reaches 26° with 4.2 hours of darkness and the Moon 0%  lit.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates