Meet a star / Constellations

Pavo

88 stars in Pavo 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

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

  1. PeacockEasy to see, 180 light years
  2. Beta PavonisEasy to see, 140 light years
  3. Delta PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 20 light years
  4. Eta PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 350 light years
  5. Epsilon PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 110 light years
  6. Zeta PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 220 light years
  7. Gamma PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 30 light years
  8. Lambda PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 1,400 light years
  9. Pi PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 130 light years
  10. Xi PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 470 light years
  11. Kappa PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 500 light years
  12. Nu PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 440 light years
  13. Phi-1 PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 91 light years
  14. HIP 92024Seen away from bright lights, 93 light years
  15. Rho PavonisSeen away from bright lights, 190 light years
  16. HIP 98608Seen away from bright lights, 480 light years
  17. Omicron PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 890 light years
  18. Phi-2 PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 80 light years
  19. Omega PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  20. Upsilon PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 790 light years
  21. HIP 98174Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  22. HIP 94150Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  23. Mu-2 PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  24. HIP 97534Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  25. Sigma PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  26. HIP 97646Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  27. Iota PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 57 light years
  28. HIP 106044Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  29. HIP 94789Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  30. HIP 89487Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  31. HIP 102962Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  32. HIP 104440Just seen from a dark place, 64 light years
  33. Theta PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  34. HIP 90664Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  35. HIP 98332Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  36. HIP 104364Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  37. Mu-1 PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  38. HIP 91854Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  39. HIP 87393Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  40. HIP 90930Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  41. HIP 93574Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  42. HIP 86871Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  43. HIP 93287Just seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  44. HIP 95999Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  45. HIP 97674Just seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  46. HIP 92008Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  47. HIP 92394Just seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  48. HIP 98959Just seen from a dark place, 58 light years
  49. HIP 96882Just seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  50. HIP 101626Just seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  51. HIP 99762Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  52. HIP 105768Just seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  53. HIP 90304Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  54. HIP 89805Just seen from a dark place, 75 light years
  55. HIP 104597Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  56. HIP 96607Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  57. HIP 97971Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  58. HIP 97611Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  59. HIP 92021Just seen from a dark place, 690 light years
  60. HIP 101965Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  61. Tau PavonisJust seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  62. HIP 100165Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  63. HIP 105678Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  64. HIP 93629Just seen from a dark place, 690 light years
  65. HIP 105148Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  66. HIP 89674Just seen from a dark place, 610 light years
  67. HIP 95369Just seen from a dark place, 690 light years
  68. HIP 101684Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  69. HIP 91733Just seen from a dark place, 670 light years
  70. HIP 103752Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  71. HIP 99453Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  72. HIP 87822Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  73. HIP 96734Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  74. HIP 98346Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  75. HIP 89006Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  76. HIP 88815Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  77. HIP 90981Just seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  78. An unnamed star in PavoJust seen from a dark place, 61 light years
  79. HIP 87264Just seen from a dark place, 800 light years
  80. HIP 101570Just seen from a dark place, 780 light years
  81. HIP 94770Just seen from a dark place, 770 light years
  82. HIP 97569Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  83. HIP 99200Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  84. HIP 89370Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  85. HIP 93012Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  86. HIP 87564Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  87. HIP 100379Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  88. HIP 93238Just seen from a dark place, 340 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.