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Reticulum

23 stars in Reticulum can be seen by eye from a dark place. 2 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

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

  1. RhombusEasy to see, 160 light years
  2. Beta ReticuliSeen away from bright lights, 97 light years
  3. Epsilon ReticuliSeen away from bright lights, 59 light years
  4. Gamma ReticuliSeen away from bright lights, 470 light years
  5. Delta ReticuliSeen away from bright lights, 530 light years
  6. Kappa ReticuliSeen away from bright lights, 71 light years
  7. Iota ReticuliSeen away from bright lights, 320 light years
  8. Zeta-2 ReticuliJust seen from a dark place, 39 light years
  9. Eta ReticuliJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  10. HIP 19805Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  11. Zeta-1 ReticuliJust seen from a dark place, 39 light years
  12. HIP 20825Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  13. HIP 21253Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  14. HIP 16368Just seen from a dark place, 870 light years
  15. Theta ReticuliJust seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  16. HIP 20619Just seen from a dark place, 700 light years
  17. HIP 15353Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  18. HIP 18592Just seen from a dark place, 200 light years
  19. HIP 18401Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  20. HIP 17464Just seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  21. HIP 19917Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  22. HIP 19233Just seen from a dark place, 77 light years
  23. HIP 16531Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  24. TupiNeeds a telescope, 110 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.