Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Musca

59 stars in Musca 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

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

  1. Alpha MuscaeEasy to see, 320 light years
  2. Beta MuscaeEasy to see, 340 light years
  3. Delta MuscaeSeen away from bright lights, 91 light years
  4. Lambda MuscaeSeen away from bright lights, 130 light years
  5. Gamma MuscaeSeen away from bright lights, 320 light years
  6. Epsilon MuscaeSeen away from bright lights, 300 light years
  7. Mu MuscaeSeen away from bright lights, 430 light years
  8. Eta MuscaeSeen away from bright lights, 380 light years
  9. HIP 64820Seen away from bright lights, 1,200 light years
  10. HIP 57851Seen away from bright lights, 360 light years
  11. HIP 57696Seen away from bright lights, 950 light years
  12. HIP 56862Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  13. Iota-1 MuscaeJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  14. HIP 55597Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  15. Zeta-2 MuscaeJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  16. HIP 59151Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  17. HIP 58884Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  18. HIP 55657Just seen from a dark place, 990 light years
  19. HIP 62608Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  20. HIP 65522Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  21. Zeta-1 MuscaeJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  22. HIP 61181Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  23. HIP 58720Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  24. HIP 56287Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  25. HIP 64466Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  26. HIP 64390Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  27. HIP 63688Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  28. HIP 63165Just seen from a dark place, 580 light years
  29. HIP 56727Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  30. HIP 59050Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  31. HIP 64994Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  32. HIP 59551Just seen from a dark place, 1,600 light years
  33. HIP 59898Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  34. HIP 65289Just seen from a dark place, 920 light years
  35. HIP 64790Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  36. HIP 55979Just seen from a dark place, 780 light years
  37. HIP 65783Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  38. HIP 61404Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  39. HIP 66574Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  40. HIP 62212Just seen from a dark place, 2,100 light years
  41. HIP 65755Just seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  42. HIP 60183Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  43. HIP 59851Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  44. HIP 55308Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  45. HIP 61796Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  46. HIP 60601Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  47. HIP 61981Just seen from a dark place, 2,000 light years
  48. HIP 64117Just seen from a dark place, 920 light years
  49. HIP 66152Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  50. HIP 60417Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  51. HIP 64682Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  52. HIP 58085Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  53. HIP 58706Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  54. HIP 55350Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
  55. HIP 58810Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  56. HIP 55332Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  57. HIP 61738Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  58. HIP 57092Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  59. HIP 59389Just seen from a dark place, 880 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.