Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Grus

57 stars in Grus 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

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

  1. AlnairEasy to see, 100 light years
  2. TiakiEasy to see, 180 light years
  3. AldhanabEasy to see, 210 light years
  4. Epsilon GruisEasy to see, 130 light years
  5. Iota GruisSeen away from bright lights, 180 light years
  6. Delta-1 GruisSeen away from bright lights, 310 light years
  7. Zeta GruisSeen away from bright lights, 110 light years
  8. Delta-2 GruisSeen away from bright lights, 330 light years
  9. Theta GruisSeen away from bright lights, 130 light years
  10. Lambda GruisSeen away from bright lights, 240 light years
  11. Mu-1 GruisSeen away from bright lights, 270 light years
  12. Rho GruisSeen away from bright lights, 230 light years
  13. Eta GruisSeen away from bright lights, 410 light years
  14. Mu-2 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  15. Xi GruisJust seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  16. HIP 110109Just seen from a dark place, 45 light years
  17. Kappa GruisJust seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  18. HIP 112832Just seen from a dark place, 770 light years
  19. HIP 108294Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  20. Nu GruisJust seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  21. HIP 108543Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  22. HIP 112381Just seen from a dark place, 790 light years
  23. Omicron GruisJust seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  24. Phi GruisJust seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  25. HIP 107649Just seen from a dark place, 52 light years
  26. HIP 106429Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  27. Upsilon GruisJust seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  28. Pi-2 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  29. HIP 113657Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  30. Tau-3 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  31. HIP 115537Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  32. HIP 114775Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  33. HIP 113902Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  34. HIP 114167Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  35. HIP 114382Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  36. Sigma-2 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  37. HIP 114407Just seen from a dark place, 920 light years
  38. HIP 114921Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  39. HIP 112117Just seen from a dark place, 77 light years
  40. Tau-1 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  41. HIP 115272Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  42. HIP 112127Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  43. HIP 109902Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  44. HIP 115496Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  45. HIP 115510Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  46. HIP 108347Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  47. HIP 109821Just seen from a dark place, 72 light years
  48. HIP 107344Just seen from a dark place, 870 light years
  49. Sigma-1 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  50. HIP 106500Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  51. HIP 114159Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  52. HIP 113189Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  53. Pi-1 GruisJust seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  54. HIP 109408Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  55. HIP 113784Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  56. HIP 114937Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  57. HIP 112432Just seen from a dark place, 770 light years
  58. ItondaNeeds 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.