Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Pyxis

42 stars in Pyxis 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

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

  1. Alpha PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 880 light years
  2. Beta PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 420 light years
  3. Gamma PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 210 light years
  4. Kappa PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 560 light years
  5. Theta PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 500 light years
  6. Lambda PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 190 light years
  7. Zeta PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 240 light years
  8. Delta PyxidisSeen away from bright lights, 250 light years
  9. HIP 42430Just seen from a dark place, 63 light years
  10. HIP 43352Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  11. Eta PyxidisJust seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  12. HIP 41817Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  13. Epsilon PyxidisJust seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  14. HIP 41723Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  15. HIP 42923Just seen from a dark place, 1,600 light years
  16. HIP 41515Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  17. HIP 43370Just seen from a dark place, 750 light years
  18. HIP 42147Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  19. HIP 43002Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  20. HIP 42928Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  21. HIP 46329Just seen from a dark place, 2,100 light years
  22. HIP 42455Just seen from a dark place, 120 light years
  23. HIP 44887Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  24. HIP 43394Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  25. HIP 41949Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  26. HIP 44290Just seen from a dark place, 350 light years
  27. HIP 44130Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  28. HIP 42394Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  29. HIP 41449Just seen from a dark place, 600 light years
  30. HIP 43114Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  31. HIP 41939Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  32. HIP 45249Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  33. HIP 41926Just seen from a dark place, 40 light years
  34. HIP 43853Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  35. HIP 45754Just seen from a dark place, 600 light years
  36. HIP 42071Just seen from a dark place, 820 light years
  37. HIP 42075Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  38. HIP 43590Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  39. HIP 42775Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  40. HIP 43215Just seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  41. HIP 43338Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  42. HIP 43573Just seen from a dark place, 770 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.