Lambda Centauri [SEP] constellation
Lambda Centauri
Lambda Centauri (λ Cen, λ Centauri) is a star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Centaurus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.13, which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere and places it among the brighter members of this constellation. The star is close enough that its distance can be determined directly using the parallax technique, which gives a value of roughly from Earth, with a 5% margin of error. Although a putative solitary star, it has
Cru") and Beta Crucis ("β Cru"), the two brightest stars in the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, Epsilon Carinae ("ε Car") in Carina, Lambda Scorpii ("λ Sco") in Scorpius and Sigma Sagittarii ("σ Sgr") in Sagittarius. After all twenty-four Greek letters have been assigned, upper and lower case Latin letters are used, such as for A Centauri ("A Cen"), D Centauri (