hip-1074

Southern polar star

Its story

In Octans, the constellation that frames the celestial south pole, this cool red M-type giant shines. Its light set out around the year 1052, when a supernova in Taurus produced the Crab Nebula, recorded by Chinese astronomers. Octans can only be seen from the southern hemisphere: this star belongs to the inverted sky that the ancient Mediterranean civilisations never knew.

Constellation: Octans
Apparent magnitude: 5.78
Distance: 973.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 3.331° · Dec -84.994°
Catalogue: HIP 1074 · HD 1032

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