Heliocodex

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Crater

33 stars in Crater can be seen by eye from a dark place. 2 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

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

  1. Delta CraterisSeen away from bright lights, 190 light years
  2. Gamma CraterisSeen away from bright lights, 82 light years
  3. AlkesSeen away from bright lights, 160 light years
  4. Beta CraterisSeen away from bright lights, 340 light years
  5. Theta CraterisSeen away from bright lights, 280 light years
  6. Zeta CraterisSeen away from bright lights, 350 light years
  7. Epsilon CraterisSeen away from bright lights, 380 light years
  8. Lambda CraterisJust seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  9. Eta CraterisJust seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  10. Iota CraterisJust seen from a dark place, 87 light years
  11. HIP 54029Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  12. HIP 53316Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  13. HIP 56078Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  14. HIP 53778Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  15. HIP 53723Just seen from a dark place, 660 light years
  16. Kappa CraterisJust seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  17. HIP 56318Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  18. HIP 56364Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  19. HIP 54214Just seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  20. HIP 55106Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  21. Psi CraterisJust seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  22. HIP 57732Just seen from a dark place, 580 light years
  23. HIP 56899Just seen from a dark place, 690 light years
  24. HIP 56901Just seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  25. HIP 57079Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  26. HIP 57587Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  27. HIP 56245Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  28. HIP 54048Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  29. HIP 57819Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  30. HIP 53259Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  31. HIP 53849Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  32. HIP 54749Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  33. HIP 56830Just seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  34. HunahpúNeeds a telescope, 440 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.