Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Ara

71 stars in Ara 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

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

  1. Beta AraeEasy to see, 650 light years
  2. Alpha AraeEasy to see, 270 light years
  3. Zeta AraeEasy to see, 490 light years
  4. Gamma AraeEasy to see, 1,100 light years
  5. Delta AraeSeen away from bright lights, 200 light years
  6. Theta AraeSeen away from bright lights, 810 light years
  7. Eta AraeSeen away from bright lights, 300 light years
  8. Epsilon-1 AraeSeen away from bright lights, 360 light years
  9. Sigma AraeSeen away from bright lights, 380 light years
  10. Lambda AraeSeen away from bright lights, 70 light years
  11. CervantesJust seen from a dark place, 51 light years
  12. Kappa AraeJust seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  13. Iota AraeJust seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  14. Pi AraeJust seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  15. Epsilon-2 AraeJust seen from a dark place, 89 light years
  16. HIP 85389Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  17. HIP 84720Just seen from a dark place, 29 light years
  18. HIP 83057Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  19. HIP 82171Just seen from a dark place, 2,700 light years
  20. HIP 81733Just seen from a dark place, 2,200 light years
  21. HIP 83187Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  22. HIP 87314Just seen from a dark place, 990 light years
  23. HIP 85147Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  24. HIP 85470Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  25. HIP 83535Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  26. HIP 82110Just seen from a dark place, 990 light years
  27. HIP 85169Just seen from a dark place, 890 light years
  28. HIP 85068Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  29. HIP 86552Just seen from a dark place, 800 light years
  30. HIP 85049Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  31. HIP 84248Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  32. HIP 86248Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  33. HIP 85409Just seen from a dark place, 3,000 light years
  34. HIP 82672Just seen from a dark place, 710 light years
  35. HIP 84731Just seen from a dark place, 2,500 light years
  36. HIP 85520Just seen from a dark place, 990 light years
  37. HIP 84105Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  38. HIP 82902Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  39. HIP 81966Just seen from a dark place, 730 light years
  40. HIP 83216Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  41. HIP 85751Just seen from a dark place, 1,800 light years
  42. HIP 82806Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  43. HIP 85788Just seen from a dark place, 1,500 light years
  44. HIP 83481Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  45. HIP 84311Just seen from a dark place, 1,500 light years
  46. HIP 87379Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  47. HIP 87174Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  48. HIP 86064Just seen from a dark place, 960 light years
  49. HIP 87404Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
  50. HIP 88859Just seen from a dark place, 890 light years
  51. HIP 81507Just seen from a dark place, 580 light years
  52. HIP 81657Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  53. HIP 85393Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  54. HIP 81847Just seen from a dark place, 2,800 light years
  55. HIP 85480Just seen from a dark place, 830 light years
  56. HIP 83323Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  57. HIP 86088Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  58. HIP 87928Just seen from a dark place, 2,900 light years
  59. HIP 84759Just seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  60. HIP 86628Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  61. HIP 81650Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  62. HIP 82868Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  63. HIP 85975Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  64. HIP 83984Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  65. HIP 83269Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  66. HIP 83321Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  67. HIP 82418Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  68. HIP 88675Just seen from a dark place, 2,700 light years
  69. HIP 82091Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  70. HIP 82723Just seen from a dark place, 1,500 light years
  71. HIP 84700Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  72. InquillNeeds a telescope, 180 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.