a Pictoris

Alpha Pictoris is a white star 100 light years away, with a visual magnitude of 3.2.

Alpha Pictoris is south-southeast of Canopus (or eleven degrees due south from tau Puppis, northeast of Canopus and in the same field of view): binoculars.


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