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Hydrus

34 stars in Hydrus 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

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

  1. Beta HydriEasy to see, 24 light years
  2. Alpha HydriEasy to see, 72 light years
  3. Gamma HydriEasy to see, 210 light years
  4. Delta HydriSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  5. Epsilon HydriSeen away from bright lights, 150 light years
  6. Eta-2 HydriSeen away from bright lights, 220 light years
  7. Nu HydriSeen away from bright lights, 340 light years
  8. Zeta HydriSeen away from bright lights, 280 light years
  9. Lambda HydriJust seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  10. Mu HydriJust seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  11. Theta HydriJust seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  12. Iota HydriJust seen from a dark place, 97 light years
  13. Pi-1 HydriJust seen from a dark place, 780 light years
  14. Pi-2 HydriJust seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  15. HIP 14521Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  16. HIP 7921Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  17. HIP 6631Just seen from a dark place, 900 light years
  18. HIP 15968Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  19. HIP 1706Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  20. Kappa HydriJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  21. HIP 7387Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  22. Tau-2 HydriJust seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  23. HIP 8983Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  24. HIP 9318Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  25. HIP 7271Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  26. HIP 14547Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  27. HIP 15840Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  28. Sigma HydriJust seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  29. HIP 7506Just seen from a dark place, 750 light years
  30. HIP 17543Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  31. Tau-1 HydriJust seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  32. HIP 9149Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  33. HIP 8957Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  34. HIP 1268Just seen from a dark place, 620 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.