Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Equuleus

18 stars in Equuleus 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

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

  1. KitalphaSeen away from bright lights, 190 light years
  2. Delta EquuleiSeen away from bright lights, 60 light years
  3. Gamma EquuleiSeen away from bright lights, 120 light years
  4. Beta EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  5. HIP 103571Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  6. Epsilon EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  7. A companion of Delta EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 60 light years
  8. 3 EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 770 light years
  9. 9 EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  10. 4 EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  11. HIP 105224Just seen from a dark place, 940 light years
  12. HIP 103652Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  13. 6 EquuleiJust seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  14. HIP 104357Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  15. HIP 105695Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  16. HIP 104041Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  17. HIP 104481Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  18. HIP 104202Just seen from a dark place, 240 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.