Heliocodex

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Corvus

28 stars in Corvus can be seen by eye from a dark place. 4 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

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

  1. GienahEasy to see, 150 light years
  2. KrazEasy to see, 150 light years
  3. AlgorabEasy to see, 87 light years
  4. Epsilon CorviEasy to see, 320 light years
  5. AlchibaSeen away from bright lights, 49 light years
  6. Eta CorviSeen away from bright lights, 60 light years
  7. HIP 60221Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  8. HIP 61910Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  9. Zeta CorviJust seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  10. HIP 58587Just seen from a dark place, 3,200 light years
  11. 3 CorviJust seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  12. HIP 61296Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  13. HIP 61015Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  14. 6 CorviJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  15. HIP 61212Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  16. HIP 59728Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  17. HIP 60157Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  18. HIP 61688Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  19. HIP 61951Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  20. HIP 59895Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  21. HIP 63109Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  22. HIP 61496Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  23. HIP 61270Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  24. HIP 58574Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  25. HIP 60809Just seen from a dark place, 830 light years
  26. HIP 60994Just seen from a dark place, 80 light years
  27. HIP 61208Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  28. HIP 60421Just seen from a dark place, 920 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.