Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Phoenix

73 stars in Phoenix can be seen by eye from a dark place. 3 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

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

  1. AnkaaEasy to see, 85 light years
  2. Beta PhoenicisEasy to see, 180 light years
  3. Gamma PhoenicisEasy to see, 230 light years
  4. Epsilon PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  5. Kappa PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 78 light years
  6. Delta PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  7. WurrenSeen away from bright lights, 300 light years
  8. Eta PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 250 light years
  9. Psi PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 340 light years
  10. Mu PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 250 light years
  11. Iota PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 250 light years
  12. HIP 116602Seen away from bright lights, 200 light years
  13. Lambda-1 PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 170 light years
  14. HIP 9095Seen away from bright lights, 250 light years
  15. Nu PhoenicisSeen away from bright lights, 49 light years
  16. Phi PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  17. Pi PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  18. Chi PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  19. Sigma PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 600 light years
  20. Upsilon PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  21. Rho PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  22. HIP 4890Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  23. HIP 6592Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  24. HIP 2240Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  25. HIP 8240Just seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  26. Lambda-2 PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  27. HIP 107Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  28. HIP 2711Just seen from a dark place, 83 light years
  29. HIP 9313Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  30. HIP 2383Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  31. HIP 522Just seen from a dark place, 84 light years
  32. Tau PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  33. Xi PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  34. HIP 3583Just seen from a dark place, 49 light years
  35. HIP 10035Just seen from a dark place, 520 light years
  36. HIP 10440Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  37. HIP 8593Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  38. HIP 3521Just seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  39. HIP 3137Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  40. HIP 116097Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  41. HIP 117880Just seen from a dark place, 90 light years
  42. HIP 2789Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  43. Theta PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  44. HIP 117075Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  45. Omega PhoenicisJust seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  46. HIP 8552Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  47. HIP 3527Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  48. HIP 11231Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  49. HIP 7115Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  50. HIP 2388Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  51. HIP 8320Just seen from a dark place, 600 light years
  52. HIP 115759Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  53. HIP 6952Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  54. HIP 2256Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  55. HIP 6595Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
  56. HIP 7189Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  57. HIP 3807Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  58. HIP 25Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  59. HIP 11043Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  60. HIP 10111Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  61. HIP 117219Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  62. HIP 730Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  63. HIP 1502Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  64. HIP 10832Just seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  65. HIP 2937Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  66. HIP 5477Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  67. HIP 115907Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  68. HIP 7443Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  69. HIP 8641Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  70. HIP 50Just seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  71. HIP 10096Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  72. HIP 3903Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  73. HIP 117571Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  74. NenqueNeeds a telescope, 130 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.