Heliocodex

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Octans

60 stars in Octans can be seen by eye from a dark place. One 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

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

  1. Nu OctantisSeen away from bright lights, 69 light years
  2. Beta OctantisSeen away from bright lights, 150 light years
  3. Delta OctantisSeen away from bright lights, 300 light years
  4. Theta OctantisSeen away from bright lights, 220 light years
  5. Epsilon OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  6. Gamma-1 OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  7. Alpha OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  8. Lambda OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  9. Chi OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  10. Gamma-3 OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  11. Xi OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  12. Zeta OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  13. Iota OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  14. Polaris AustralisJust seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  15. Phi OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  16. Psi OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  17. Tau OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  18. Kappa OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  19. Rho OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  20. Pi-1 OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  21. Pi-2 OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 2,000 light years
  22. HIP 7568Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  23. Gamma-2 OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  24. HIP 117125Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  25. HIP 101427Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  26. Upsilon OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  27. HIP 1074Just seen from a dark place, 970 light years
  28. HIP 116250Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  29. Omega OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  30. HIP 7601Just seen from a dark place, 89 light years
  31. HIP 101843Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  32. HIP 108849Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  33. HIP 90606Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  34. Mu-1 OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  35. HIP 116653Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  36. HIP 83255Just seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  37. HIP 58697Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  38. HIP 114258Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  39. HIP 110712Just seen from a dark place, 75 light years
  40. HIP 109584Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  41. HIP 111504Just seen from a dark place, 950 light years
  42. HIP 100697Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  43. HIP 106881Just seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  44. Eta OctantisJust seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  45. HIP 91723Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  46. HIP 60638Just seen from a dark place, 730 light years
  47. HIP 115129Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  48. HIP 93117Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  49. HIP 106474Just seen from a dark place, 710 light years
  50. HIP 98086Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  51. HIP 92233Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  52. HIP 108759Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  53. HIP 17328Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  54. HIP 106320Just seen from a dark place, 680 light years
  55. HIP 114550Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  56. HIP 88274Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  57. HIP 32500Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  58. HIP 106424Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  59. HIP 75736Just seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  60. HIP 90509Just seen from a dark place, 700 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.