Heliocodex

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Mensa

23 stars in Mensa 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

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

  1. HoerikwaggoJust seen from a dark place, 33 light years
  2. Gamma MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  3. Beta MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 790 light years
  4. Theta MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  5. Kappa MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  6. Eta MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 670 light years
  7. Mu MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  8. Epsilon MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  9. Zeta MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  10. Pi MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 60 light years
  11. Delta MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  12. HIP 16290Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  13. Nu MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  14. HIP 26169Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  15. Xi MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  16. Iota MensaeJust seen from a dark place, 850 light years
  17. HIP 21611Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  18. HIP 25776Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  19. HIP 23737Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  20. HIP 22717Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  21. HIP 23251Just seen from a dark place, 890 light years
  22. HIP 16827Just seen from a dark place, 750 light years
  23. HIP 24507Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  24. BubupNeeds a telescope, 120 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.