Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Pictor

48 stars in Pictor 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

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

  1. Alpha PictorisEasy to see, 97 light years
  2. Beta PictorisSeen away from bright lights, 63 light years
  3. Gamma PictorisSeen away from bright lights, 180 light years
  4. Delta PictorisSeen away from bright lights, 1,300 light years
  5. HIP 28991Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  6. Eta-2 PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 440 light years
  7. HIP 27621Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  8. HIP 30932Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  9. HIP 27947Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  10. Lambda PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  11. HIP 27243Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  12. Eta-1 PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 85 light years
  13. Zeta PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  14. HIP 25768Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  15. Iota PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  16. Nu PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  17. HIP 28484Just seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  18. Mu PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 760 light years
  19. HIP 30463Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  20. HIP 28287Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  21. HIP 30703Just seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  22. HIP 25887Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  23. HIP 27737Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  24. HIP 24384Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  25. HIP 25317Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  26. Kappa PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  27. HIP 26300Just seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  28. HIP 27937Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  29. HIP 32775Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  30. HIP 31068Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  31. HIP 31711Just seen from a dark place, 69 light years
  32. HIP 27317Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  33. Theta PictorisJust seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  34. HIP 23653Just seen from a dark place, 830 light years
  35. HIP 30524Just seen from a dark place, 730 light years
  36. HIP 30352Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  37. HIP 27583Just seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  38. HIP 27001Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  39. HIP 28596Just seen from a dark place, 960 light years
  40. HIP 26079Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  41. Iota Pictoris (HIP 22534)Just seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  42. HIP 26515Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  43. HIP 29788Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  44. HIP 30480Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  45. HIP 21666Just seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  46. HIP 30423Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  47. HIP 24520Just seen from a dark place, 760 light years
  48. HIP 28180Just seen from a dark place, 680 light years
  49. Kapteyn's StarNeeds a telescope, 13 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.