Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Circinus

35 stars in Circinus 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

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

  1. XamiEasy to see, 54 light years
  2. Beta CirciniSeen away from bright lights, 100 light years
  3. Gamma CirciniSeen away from bright lights, 450 light years
  4. Epsilon CirciniSeen away from bright lights, 410 light years
  5. Theta CirciniJust seen from a dark place, 1,500 light years
  6. Eta CirciniJust seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  7. HIP 73036Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  8. HIP 72131Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  9. HIP 70492Just seen from a dark place, 2,000 light years
  10. HIP 75308Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  11. HIP 69763Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  12. HIP 67664Just seen from a dark place, 730 light years
  13. HIP 67942Just seen from a dark place, 940 light years
  14. HIP 74750Just seen from a dark place, 1,700 light years
  15. HIP 71002Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  16. HIP 70657Just seen from a dark place, 900 light years
  17. HIP 72438Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  18. HIP 72773Just seen from a dark place, 1,600 light years
  19. HIP 68455Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  20. HIP 71530Just seen from a dark place, 91 light years
  21. HIP 69298Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  22. Zeta CirciniJust seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  23. HIP 72097Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  24. HIP 72121Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  25. HIP 68270Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  26. HIP 72471Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  27. HIP 71861Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  28. HIP 74181Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  29. HIP 74273Just seen from a dark place, 79 light years
  30. HIP 70528Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  31. HIP 74552Just seen from a dark place, 850 light years
  32. HIP 72983Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
  33. HIP 73118Just seen from a dark place, 1,800 light years
  34. HIP 74044Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  35. HIP 72518Just seen from a dark place, 950 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.