Meet a star / Constellations

Indus

44 stars in Indus 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

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

  1. Alpha IndiEasy to see, 98 light years
  2. Beta IndiSeen away from bright lights, 610 light years
  3. Theta IndiSeen away from bright lights, 99 light years
  4. Delta IndiSeen away from bright lights, 190 light years
  5. Eta IndiSeen away from bright lights, 79 light years
  6. Epsilon IndiSeen away from bright lights, 12 light years
  7. Zeta IndiSeen away from bright lights, 410 light years
  8. Iota IndiJust seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  9. Mu IndiJust seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  10. Nu IndiJust seen from a dark place, 94 light years
  11. Omicron IndiJust seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  12. HIP 113969Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  13. HIP 110935Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  14. Kappa-2 IndiJust seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  15. HIP 107773Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  16. HIP 104978Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  17. HIP 103673Just seen from a dark place, 91 light years
  18. HIP 110668Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  19. HIP 108195Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  20. HIP 107423Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  21. HIP 108626Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  22. Rho IndiJust seen from a dark place, 87 light years
  23. A companion of Nu IndiJust seen from a dark place, 94 light years
  24. Gamma IndiJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  25. Kappa-1 IndiJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  26. HIP 105334Just seen from a dark place, 1,900 light years
  27. HIP 115062Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  28. Pi IndiJust seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  29. HIP 114268Just seen from a dark place, 600 light years
  30. HIP 106978Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  31. HIP 106818Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  32. HIP 103206Just seen from a dark place, 910 light years
  33. HIP 103693Just seen from a dark place, 760 light years
  34. HIP 105685Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  35. HIP 107030Just seen from a dark place, 720 light years
  36. HIP 112694Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  37. HIP 106065Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  38. HIP 105425Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  39. HIP 106419Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  40. HIP 104296Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  41. HIP 107409Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  42. HIP 114367Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  43. HIP 114408Just seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  44. HIP 107299Just seen from a dark place, 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.