Meet a star / Constellations
Sagitta
22 stars in Sagitta 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
23 in all. The dot shows each star's colour.
- Gamma SagittaeSeen away from bright lights, 260 light years
- Delta SagittaeSeen away from bright lights, 590 light years
- Beta SagittaeSeen away from bright lights, 440 light years
- ShamSeen away from bright lights, 430 light years
- Zeta SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 260 light years
- Eta SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
- 13 SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
- 11 SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 460 light years
- 1 SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 300 light years
- Epsilon SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 480 light years
- 15 SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 58 light years
- HIP 100276Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
- HIP 98738Just seen from a dark place, 810 light years
- HIP 94598Just seen from a dark place, 680 light years
- HIP 93966Just seen from a dark place, 70 light years
- HIP 93523Just seen from a dark place, 810 light years
- 18 SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
- HIP 99445Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
- 2 SagittaeJust seen from a dark place, 370 light years
- HIP 99176Just seen from a dark place, 1,600 light years
- HIP 94646Just seen from a dark place, 840 light years
- HIP 93374Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
- UrukNeeds a telescope, 390 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.