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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Octans used when naming stars, such as α Octantis.
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The Flagship of The Alliance Fleet, the Apocalypse, approached the fifth planet of the Sigma Octantis system.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The Flagship of The Alliance Fleet, the Apocalypse, approached the fifth planet of the Sigma Octantis system.
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Quite near the pole is a star of the fifth magnitude, called 'Octantis,' and this also is used for observation purposes.
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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It is Sigma Octantis, in the very dull southern constellation of Octans, the Octant.
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Clif won by a hair, AX Arae being a bare twelve parsecs farther than 1020 Octantis, Picard’s farthest distance reached by normal means.
INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000
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