title: Lambda2 Sculptoris
text: # Lambda2 Sculptoris
  
  $Lambda^2$ Sculptoris is an orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Sculptor. On dark nights it is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.90. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 9.63 mas as measured from Earth, it is located roughly 340 light-years from the Sun. It has a relatively large proper motion, advancing 0.284±0.015 arcsecond per year across the sky.
  
  At an age of about 3.58 billion years, $Lambda^2$ Sculptoris is an evolved red-clump giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III. It is presently on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through the nuclear fusion of helium at its core. The star has an estimated 1.49 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to about 14 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 63 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,531 K.
  
  