Eps

Its story

ε Octantis is a red giant pulsing slowly in Octans, the dark constellation of the southern celestial pole. Unlike the northern Polar Star, no bright sun marks the southern pole; ε Octantis burns discreetly near that void, a cool ruby in the loneliest region of the sky. To gaze at it from the south is to gaze almost at the very axis of Earth's spin.