Fomalhaut
Brightest star in Pisces
What Is It
It is a Main Sequence star in the constellation Pisces that was discovered even before Ptolemy. This is possible because we can see it with our naked eyes.
Facts About It
It has a mass of 1.92 times our sun, it has a radius 1.842 times our sun's. It is 25 light years away from Earth. It measures at 8590 degrees Kelvin with a luminosity of 16.63L.
Fun Facts About It.
It has a visible exo-planet, it is very young, only 100-300 million years old. Ptolemy came up with the modern name for it. It will eventually explode into a supernova.
Also it looks like the eye of Sauron.