Heliocodex

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Horologium

32 stars in Horologium 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

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

  1. Alpha HorologiiSeen away from bright lights, 120 light years
  2. Delta HorologiiSeen away from bright lights, 180 light years
  3. Beta HorologiiSeen away from bright lights, 290 light years
  4. Mu HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  5. Zeta HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  6. Nu HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  7. Eta HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  8. HIP 20161Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  9. Lambda HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  10. Iota HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 56 light years
  11. HIP 16509Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  12. HIP 14930Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  13. HIP 17534Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  14. Gamma HorologiiJust seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  15. HIP 10871Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  16. HIP 15305Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  17. HIP 18199Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  18. HIP 16339Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  19. HIP 13387Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  20. HIP 14749Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  21. HIP 12775Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  22. HIP 13518Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  23. HIP 12717Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  24. HIP 11925Just seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  25. HIP 11479Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  26. HIP 19721Just seen from a dark place, 950 light years
  27. HIP 11293Just seen from a dark place, 750 light years
  28. HIP 15655Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  29. HIP 13429Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  30. HIP 17493Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  31. HIP 17298Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  32. HIP 15884Just seen from a dark place, 400 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.