Star profile
Omega Octans
Southern polar starWhat is Omega Octans
Omega Octantis is a solitary blue-white B9.5 star with 2.5 solar masses and 50 times the Sun's luminosity, 317 light-years away in the cold heart around the south celestial pole. Still young, it has burned through only 40% of its main-sequence life. It spins calmly at 36 km/s along its equator, a blue beacon in one of those regions of sky where almost every star is too faint to see.
Where it is and when to see it
Omega Octans lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: 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 Omega Octans
- Constellation
- Octans
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.88
- Distance
- 317.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 227.787° · Dec -84.788°
- Catalogue
- HIP 74296 · HD 131596
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Other stars in Octans
Octans has 35 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Nu Octans3.73
- Beta Octans4.13
- Delta Octans4.31
- Upsilon Octans5.76
- HIP 10745.78
- HIP 1162505.82
- HIP 76015.88
- HIP 1018435.89