Heliocodex

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Caelum

20 stars in Caelum can be seen by eye from a dark place. None of them 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

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

  1. Alpha CaeliSeen away from bright lights, 66 light years
  2. Gamma-1 CaeliSeen away from bright lights, 180 light years
  3. Beta CaeliJust seen from a dark place, 94 light years
  4. Delta CaeliJust seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  5. HIP 21958Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  6. HIP 22573Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  7. HIP 23446Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  8. HIP 23377Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  9. HIP 22144Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  10. HIP 22488Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  11. HIP 20781Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  12. HIP 22847Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  13. HIP 20934Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  14. HIP 21998Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  15. HIP 23555Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  16. Gamma-2 CaeliJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  17. Zeta CaeliJust seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  18. HIP 20630Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  19. HIP 21525Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  20. HIP 20856Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 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.