T Coronae Australis


T Coronae Australis, is a binary star in the constellation Corona Australis. It is a member of the Corona Australis star-forming region, which is located about away. It is a Herbig Ae/Be star, still in the first stages of star formation, and is surrounded by a circumstellar disk seen edge-on.
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt discovered that it is a variable star, in 1876. It appeared with its variable star designation in Annie Jump Cannon's 1907 work Second Catalogue of Variable Stars.
, the stars are separated by along a position angle of 275°. Their observed physical separation is 23 astronomical units. The primary component is 1.7 times as massive as the Sun, while the secondary is 0.9 times as massive.