Octantis is a solitary star in the Octans constellation that forms the pole star of the Southern Hemisphere. Its name is also written as σ Octantis,...

δ Octantis, Latinised as Delta Octantis, has the distinction of being Saturn's southern pole star. An orange giant of class K2III, it has 1.2 times the...

magnitude 4.3 Delta Octantis. The Astronomical Society of Southern Africa in 2003 reported that observations of the Mira variable stars R and T Octantis were urgently...

dimmer magnitude 5.5 star on its southern axis, Polaris Australis (Sigma Octantis). From around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris)...

a spectacular arc stretching across half the celestial hemisphere. Delta Octantis is the south pole star of Saturn. Its north pole is in the far northern...

Scuti variable, but this remains unconfirmed. Other examples include - σ Octantis and β Cassiopeiae "Light Curve". Hipparcos ESA. ESA. Retrieved 17 February...

territory in the northern hemisphere (and the State of Pará). The Sigma Octantis (south pole star) is small, but all the other stars turn around it. Its...

and lower mass, are more unstable. Examples: Sigma Octantis (σ Octantis), an F-type giant and a Delta Scuti variable; Capella Aa (α Aurigae Aa), a G-type...

from the North Celestial Pole, and is easily seen by the naked eye. σ Octantis, sometimes known as the South Star, can be sighted in the Southern hemisphere...

asterism consisting of δ1 Apodis, ζ Apodis, ι Apodis, β Apodis, γ Apodis, δ Octantis, η Apodis, α Apodis and ε Apodis. Consequently, δ1 Apodis itself is known...

Cepheids and cepheid-like Type I (Classical cepheids, Delta Scuti) Type II (BL Herculis, W Virginis, RV Tauri) RR Lyrae Rapidly oscillating Ap SX Phoenicis...

{\displaystyle {\begin{smallmatrix}\mu ={\sqrt {{\mu _{\delta }}^{2}+{\mu _{\alpha }}^{2}\cdot \cos ^{2}\delta }}\ =\ 327.78\ {\text{mas/y}}\end{smallmatrix}}}...

exoplanet (DS Tucanae Ab). HD 57625 144.3 1 F8 Has one known exoplanet. Alpha Octantis 144.8 ± 0.6 2 F4III+F5III +5.13 LSPM J0207+3331 145 ± 1 1 DA Theta Sagittae...

particularly bland portion of the sky. The nominal south pole star is Sigma Octantis, which with magnitude 5.5 is barely visible to the naked eye even under...

"high" PM Teegarden's Star 5 +68.3 PM[better source needed]; RM Upsilon Octantis "high" +19 PM; RM Upsilon Pegasi Alkarab "high" -8.6 Name; PM; RM V718...

D. J.; et al. (2016). "The conjectured S-type retrograde planet in ν Octantis: more evidence including four years of iodine-cell radial velocities"....