Phi

Its story

Phi Octantis belongs to Octans, that small southern constellation Lacaille created to honor the navigation instrument, with the peculiarity of housing the south celestial pole. It is a white A-type star roughly 194 light-years away, part of the handful of faint lights that surround the invisible axis around which the entire southern sky turns. A discreet glow at the silent heart of the southern firmament.