Lam

Its story

λ Octantis lives in the constellation that shelters the south celestial pole, where no bright polar star serves as a guide. It is a binary system about 400 light-years away: a yellowish G8-K0 giant swollen to thirteen times the Sun, joined by a peculiar Am-type companion. Though it does not mark the pole itself, it helps frame the constellation that wraps the southern axis of the sky.