Lacaille 8760

Lacaille 8760 (AX Microscopii) is a red dwarf star in the constellation Microscopium.

At an apparent magnitude of +6.7, it may only be visible to the unaided eye under exceptionally good viewing conditions, under dark skies.

This star was originally listed in a 1763 catalog that was published posthumously by the French Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.

Lacaille 8760 is one of the largest and brightest red dwarfs known, with about 60%[4] the mass and 51%[7] the radius of the Sun.

[17] Its closest approach to the Sun occurred about 20,000 years ago when it came within 12 light-years (3.7 parsecs).

An ultraviolet band light curve for a flare on AX Microscopii, adapted from Byrne (1981) [ 15 ]