Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Apus

39 stars in Apus can be seen by eye from a dark place. 2 have names of their own. The rest go by a Greek letter, a number, or their place in a catalogue. Here is every one, brightest first.

Its stars

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

  1. ParadysSeen away from bright lights, 450 light years
  2. Gamma ApodisSeen away from bright lights, 160 light years
  3. Beta ApodisSeen away from bright lights, 160 light years
  4. Delta-1 ApodisSeen away from bright lights, 760 light years
  5. Zeta ApodisSeen away from bright lights, 300 light years
  6. Eta ApodisSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  7. Epsilon ApodisJust seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  8. Delta-2 ApodisJust seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  9. HIP 73223Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  10. Iota ApodisJust seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  11. Kappa-1 ApodisJust seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  12. HIP 81141Just seen from a dark place, 810 light years
  13. HIP 72833Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  14. Kappa-2 ApodisJust seen from a dark place, 780 light years
  15. Theta ApodisJust seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  16. HIP 78868Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  17. HIP 85760Just seen from a dark place, 880 light years
  18. HIP 89234Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  19. HIP 89115Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  20. HIP 73415Just seen from a dark place, 760 light years
  21. HIP 76877Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  22. HIP 74421Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  23. HIP 69090Just seen from a dark place, 93 light years
  24. HIP 70874Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  25. HIP 87926Just seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  26. HIP 68431Just seen from a dark place, 780 light years
  27. HIP 76664Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  28. HIP 73394Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  29. HIP 84158Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  30. HIP 84510Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  31. HIP 71870Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  32. HIP 88599Just seen from a dark place, 820 light years
  33. HIP 75959Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  34. HIP 78360Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  35. HIP 70418Just seen from a dark place, 970 light years
  36. HIP 72670Just seen from a dark place, 830 light years
  37. HIP 82944Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  38. HIP 86510Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  39. HIP 69778Just seen from a dark place, 2,000 light years
  40. KarakaNeeds a telescope, 130 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.