Heliocodex

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Fornax

61 stars in Fornax 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

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

  1. DalimSeen away from bright lights, 46 light years
  2. Beta FornacisSeen away from bright lights, 170 light years
  3. Nu FornacisSeen away from bright lights, 370 light years
  4. Omega FornacisSeen away from bright lights, 480 light years
  5. Delta FornacisSeen away from bright lights, 850 light years
  6. Phi FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  7. Kappa FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 72 light years
  8. Mu FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  9. Pi FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  10. Gamma-2 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  11. Eta-3 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  12. Rho FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  13. HIP 15479Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  14. Zeta FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  15. Chi-2 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  16. Iota-1 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 580 light years
  17. Lambda-2 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 84 light years
  18. Iota-2 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  19. Epsilon FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  20. Sigma FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  21. Lambda-1 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  22. Eta-2 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  23. HIP 15357Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  24. Psi FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  25. HIP 16029Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  26. HIP 12608Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  27. Tau FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  28. HIP 8820Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  29. HIP 11524Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  30. HIP 13907Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  31. Gamma-1 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  32. HIP 15024Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  33. HIP 14551Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  34. HIP 16628Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  35. HIP 12786Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  36. HIP 15125Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  37. HIP 11802Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  38. HIP 14972Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  39. HIP 13768Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  40. HIP 9562Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
  41. HIP 13947Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  42. HIP 8369Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  43. HIP 10798Just seen from a dark place, 41 light years
  44. HIP 8480Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  45. HIP 15700Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  46. HIP 9207Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  47. HIP 8514Just seen from a dark place, 89 light years
  48. HIP 16449Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  49. HIP 13363Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  50. HIP 8233Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  51. Chi-1 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  52. HIP 16672Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  53. HIP 15585Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  54. HIP 9521Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  55. HIP 13789Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  56. HIP 11212Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  57. HIP 11121Just seen from a dark place, 880 light years
  58. HIP 12300Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  59. HIP 10069Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  60. HIP 16697Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  61. Chi-3 FornacisJust seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  62. IntanNeeds a telescope, 150 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.