Star profile
Lambda 2 Phoenicis
What is Lambda 2 Phoenicis
Lambda-2 Phoenicis is a yellow-white main-sequence F6V star, 114 light-years away and around 2 billion years old: an older, slightly hotter cousin of the Sun. It belongs to a binary or multiple system in the constellation of the Phoenix, that mythical bird reborn from its ashes, drawn by Dutch navigators during their voyages to the Indian Ocean.
Where it is and when to see it
Lambda 2 Phoenicis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Lambda 2 Phoenicis
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.51
- Distance
- 113.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 8.922° · Dec -48.001°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2802 · HD 3302
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Other stars in Phoenix
Phoenix has 39 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AnkaaAlpha Phoenicis2.40
- Beta Phoenicis3.32
- Gamma Phoenicis3.41
- HIP 22405.42
- HIP 65925.42
- HIP 82405.49
- HIP 1075.53
- HIP 27115.57