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λ Pictoris, Latinised as Lambda Pictoris, is a solitary, orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Pictor. It is visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude 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 Sun. At the estimated age of 2.24 billion years old, it is an evolved K-type giant star 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 Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,581 K.

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List of stars in Pictor Pictor in Chinese astronomy
Stars	Bayer α β γ δ ζ η η θ ι κ λ μ ν μ Dor Variable R S RR SW TU TV TW TX AB AE AK VZ HR 1498 1667 1727 1742 1813 1856 1860 1912 1984 2008 2023 2032 2044 2049 2072 2089 2094 2114 2117 2138 2274 2336 2337 2345 2354 2360 2369 2389 2562 HD 37781 40307 41004 41248 Other 2MASS J05581644–4501559 EBLM J0555-57 NGC 1995 PSR J0437−4715 TOI-270 TOI-1338 WISE 0647−6232
Exoplanets AB Pictoris b β Pictoris b c HD 40307 b c d e f g HR 2562 B LHS 1815 b TOI-1338 b c
Galaxies	NGC 1705 1803 1998 2008 Other Pictor A PKS 0529-549 PKS 0537-441 QSO J0529-4351
Category

• K-type giants
• Pictor
• Bayer objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Durchmusterung objects