λ Pictoris, Latinised as Lambda Pictoris, is a solitary, orange-hued star in the southern constellation of

Pictor Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, located between the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris (the "painter's easel ...

. It is visible to the naked eye, having an

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of +5.29. With an annual parallax shift of 8.71 mas as seen from the Earth, it is located around 374 light-years from the

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. At the estimated age of 2.24 billion years old, it is an

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K-type

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with a stellar classification of K0/1 III. Lambda Pictoris has 2.2 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 112 times the

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from its photosphere at an effective temperature of .

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