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South celestial pole
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Celestial pole.
Finding the south celestial pole
The south celestial pole is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere. It lies in the dim constellationOctans, the Octant. Sigma Octantis is identified as the south pole star, more than one degree away from the pole, but with a magnitude of 5.5 it is barely visible on a clear night.