Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Columba

68 stars in Columba can be seen by eye from a dark place. 3 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

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

  1. PhactEasy to see, 260 light years
  2. WaznEasy to see, 87 light years
  3. Delta ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 230 light years
  4. Epsilon ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 260 light years
  5. Eta ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 470 light years
  6. Gamma ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 870 light years
  7. Kappa ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 180 light years
  8. Omicron ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 110 light years
  9. Lambda ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 330 light years
  10. Xi ColumbaeSeen away from bright lights, 330 light years
  11. ElkurudSeen away from bright lights, 720 light years
  12. Mu ColumbaeJust seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  13. HIP 31165Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  14. Nu-2 ColumbaeJust seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  15. HIP 26868Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  16. HIP 31299Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  17. HIP 26649Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  18. HIP 25993Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  19. Pi-2 ColumbaeJust seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  20. Sigma ColumbaeJust seen from a dark place, 1,700 light years
  21. HIP 28524Just seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  22. HIP 29842Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  23. HIP 29263Just seen from a dark place, 850 light years
  24. HIP 27955Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  25. HIP 30143Just seen from a dark place, 1,900 light years
  26. HIP 25608Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  27. HIP 31457Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  28. HIP 30444Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  29. HIP 27766Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  30. HIP 28756Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  31. HIP 31637Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  32. HIP 25194Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  33. HIP 26019Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  34. HIP 24426Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  35. HIP 30069Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  36. HIP 26219Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  37. HIP 28899Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  38. HIP 28855Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  39. HIP 26545Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  40. HIP 31072Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  41. HIP 28992Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  42. HIP 25488Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  43. HIP 29852Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  44. HIP 24831Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  45. HIP 29808Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  46. HIP 31617Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  47. HIP 25007Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  48. Nu-1 ColumbaeJust seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  49. Pi-1 ColumbaeJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  50. HIP 26862Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  51. HIP 31056Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  52. HIP 27303Just seen from a dark place, 750 light years
  53. HIP 30566Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  54. HIP 26981Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  55. HIP 31099Just seen from a dark place, 720 light years
  56. HIP 26309Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  57. HIP 27325Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  58. HIP 30505Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  59. HIP 30849Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  60. HIP 24909Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  61. HIP 27901Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  62. HIP 26796Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  63. HIP 31509Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  64. HIP 31603Just seen from a dark place, 1,600 light years
  65. HIP 28138Just seen from a dark place, 790 light years
  66. HIP 31241Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  67. HIP 27705Just seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  68. HIP 30706Just seen from a dark place, 160 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.