Ome

Its story

Omega Pavonis is a faint light of magnitude 5.14 in the tail of the southern Peacock, distant —more than 560 light-years by the Hipparcos parallaxes— and unusually swift: it is receding from us at some 180 km per second, a striking radial velocity for a naked-eye star. It belongs to that quiet population of the deep southern sky that yields only to those who look beyond the famous constellations.