I've never been to the southern hemisphere either, but Wikipedia's got our back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars https://en.wikipedia.org

I've never been to the southern hemisphere either, but Wikipedia's got our back! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars Looks like similarly bright southern stars include some of the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Ceti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Ceti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Pavonis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Pavonis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Trianguli_Australis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Trianguli_Australis It's pretty bright, but not uniquely so. It'd be about the 20th brightest object in the sky (assuming even distribution).