Alp

Its story

Alpha Chamaeleontis is the principal light of the Chameleon, a small constellation charted by the navigators Pieter Keyser and Frederick de Houtman on their return from the East Indies in 1597. A yellow-white type F star roughly 64 light-years away, it is among the nearest in the far southern repertoire. Its quiet, steady light marks the polar sky known only to austral sailors and inhabitants of the southern hemisphere.