Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Dorado

30 stars in Dorado can be seen by eye from a dark place. None of them 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

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

  1. Alpha DoradusEasy to see, 170 light years
  2. Beta DoradusSeen away from bright lights, 1,000 light years
  3. Gamma DoradusSeen away from bright lights, 67 light years
  4. Delta DoradusSeen away from bright lights, 150 light years
  5. HIP 27890Seen away from bright lights, 86 light years
  6. Zeta DoradusSeen away from bright lights, 38 light years
  7. Theta DoradusSeen away from bright lights, 490 light years
  8. Eta-2 DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  9. Nu DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  10. Epsilon DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  11. Lambda DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  12. HIP 23840Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  13. Kappa DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  14. HIP 26001Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  15. Pi-2 DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  16. Pi-1 DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  17. HIP 21479Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  18. Eta-1 DoradusJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  19. HIP 25482Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  20. HIP 20109Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  21. HIP 22844Just seen from a dark place, 99 light years
  22. HIP 25781Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  23. HIP 26368Just seen from a dark place, 760 light years
  24. HIP 20552Just seen from a dark place, 90 light years
  25. HIP 30973Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  26. HIP 26190Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  27. HIP 27660Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  28. HIP 22737Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  29. HIP 18275Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  30. HIP 22081Just seen from a dark place, 490 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.