Heliocodex

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Antlia

42 stars in Antlia can be seen by eye from a dark place. One has a name of its own. The rest go by a Greek letter, a number, or their place in a catalogue. Here is every one, brightest first.

Its stars

43 in all. The dot shows each star's colour.

  1. Alpha AntliaeSeen away from bright lights, 370 light years
  2. Epsilon AntliaeSeen away from bright lights, 710 light years
  3. Iota AntliaeSeen away from bright lights, 190 light years
  4. Theta AntliaeSeen away from bright lights, 340 light years
  5. Eta AntliaeJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  6. HIP 50888Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  7. HIP 54173Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  8. HIP 46578Just seen from a dark place, 790 light years
  9. HIP 51821Just seen from a dark place, 870 light years
  10. HIP 50456Just seen from a dark place, 2,700 light years
  11. Delta AntliaeJust seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  12. A companion of Theta AntliaeJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  13. HIP 52965Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  14. HIP 47199Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  15. HIP 52407Just seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  16. HIP 47187Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  17. Zeta-1 AntliaeJust seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  18. HIP 48748Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  19. HIP 46736Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  20. HIP 50103Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  21. Zeta-2 AntliaeJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  22. HIP 48191Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  23. HIP 47224Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  24. HIP 49769Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  25. HIP 46517Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  26. HIP 50234Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  27. HIP 50868Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  28. HIP 49418Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  29. HIP 49967Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  30. HIP 48468Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  31. HIP 50492Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  32. HIP 48776Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  33. HIP 50122Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  34. HIP 49645Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  35. HIP 48219Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  36. HIP 52273Just seen from a dark place, 900 light years
  37. HIP 50075Just seen from a dark place, 75 light years
  38. HIP 47627Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  39. HIP 49343Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  40. HIP 46874Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  41. HIP 46810Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  42. HIP 47039Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  43. MacondoNeeds a telescope, 91 light years

Where this comes from

The stars and their measurements are from the HYG star database, version 4.4, by David Nash, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Which constellation a star belongs to follows the boundaries drawn by the International Astronomical Union, as that database gives them. To see what is up tonight, open the sky map.