δ Octantis, Latinised as Delta Octantis, has the distinction of being

Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 tim ...

's southern

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. An orange giant of class K2III, it has 1.2 times the mass of the Sun and about 25 times the Sun's radius. This star is about 4.3 billion years old, which is similar to the age of the Sun.

Naming

In Chinese caused by adaptation of the European southern hemisphere constellations into the Chinese system, (), meaning '' Exotic Bird'', refers to an asterism consisting of δ Octantis, ζ Apodis, ι Apodis, β Apodis, γ Apodis, δ¹ Apodis, η Apodis, α Apodis and ε Apodis. Consequently, δ Octantis itself is known as (, ).AEEA (Activities of Exhibition and Education in Astronomy) 天文教育資訊網 2006 年 7 月 29 日

References

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