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Its story

Within Octans, almost grazing the southern celestial pole, an orange K-class giant watches over the path of austral navigators. Its light began its voyage more than three hundred and eighty years ago, when Galileo was aiming his telescope at Jupiter for the first time. Cooler and larger than the Sun, it gleams as a quiet beacon for those who seek the south without a polar star as bright as the northern one.