Lam

Its story

Lambda Crateris shines with a yellow-white light in the Cup, that modest figure Greek myth tied to Apollo between the Crow and the Water Serpent. It is an F-type star 140 light-years away: a touch hotter and brighter than the Sun, in a stage between youth and maturity. It traces part of the fine outline of the cup, which, lacking truly bright stars, asks the observer for a dark sky and a little patience to make out its silhouette over the long back of the watery snake.