December (Usually visible from southern latitudes)
Notes
Eta2Pictoris is an old, evolvedorangestar in western Pictor, more than four hundred light years from the Sun. Having developed into a giant, it has expanded to a diameter more than forty times that of the Sun. Eta2Pictoris is unrelated to Eta1 Pictoris other than lying close by as seen from Earth (the two stars are actually widely separated in space, with Eta2 being much more distant from the Sun than Eta1).
The bright patches to the east (left) of Eta2Pictoris are not other stars, but a pair of galaxies nearly two hundred million light years beyond the Milky Way. The northern and more prominent of the two is the barred spiralNGC 1803, while the southern of the pair is lenticular PGC 16720. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas
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