Phi-2

Its story

Phi-2 Pavonis shines just eighty light-years away in the southern Peacock, a constellation devised by Dutch navigators when they crossed the equator. It is a yellow-white F-type star, a relatively close neighbour of the Sun, slightly hotter and more massive. It forms a visual pair in the sky with its sister Phi-1, one of those apparent relationships that the chance of perspective bequeathed to the catalogues.