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Chamaeleon

32 stars in Chamaeleon 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

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

  1. Alpha ChamaeleontisSeen away from bright lights, 64 light years
  2. Gamma ChamaeleontisSeen away from bright lights, 420 light years
  3. Beta ChamaeleontisSeen away from bright lights, 300 light years
  4. Theta ChamaeleontisSeen away from bright lights, 160 light years
  5. Delta-2 ChamaeleontisSeen away from bright lights, 350 light years
  6. Epsilon ChamaeleontisSeen away from bright lights, 360 light years
  7. Kappa ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  8. Zeta ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  9. Iota ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  10. Nu ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  11. Delta-1 ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  12. Eta ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  13. Mu-1 ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  14. Pi ChamaeleontisJust seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  15. HIP 41191Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  16. HIP 43012Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  17. HIP 64587Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  18. HIP 68009Just seen from a dark place, 800 light years
  19. HIP 52340Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  20. HIP 42794Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  21. HIP 45166Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  22. HIP 51835Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  23. HIP 56996Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  24. HIP 66607Just seen from a dark place, 770 light years
  25. HIP 59647Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  26. HIP 64951Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  27. HIP 55225Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  28. HIP 53151Just seen from a dark place, 2,000 light years
  29. HIP 57137Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  30. HIP 64108Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  31. HIP 55497Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  32. HIP 48320Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
  33. CeiboNeeds a telescope, 110 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.