Heliocodex

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Sculptor

54 stars in Sculptor 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

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

  1. Alpha SculptorisSeen away from bright lights, 780 light years
  2. Beta SculptorisSeen away from bright lights, 170 light years
  3. Gamma SculptorisSeen away from bright lights, 180 light years
  4. Delta SculptorisSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  5. Eta SculptorisSeen away from bright lights, 450 light years
  6. Zeta SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  7. Iota SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  8. Theta SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 69 light years
  9. Pi SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 210 light years
  10. Epsilon SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 92 light years
  11. Mu SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  12. Kappa-2 SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 790 light years
  13. Kappa-1 SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 250 light years
  14. HIP 7213Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  15. Sigma SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  16. HIP 2661Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  17. HIP 118277Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  18. Xi SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 510 light years
  19. HIP 114254Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  20. HIP 115312Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  21. HIP 1288Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  22. HIP 655Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  23. Tau SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  24. HIP 7941Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  25. HIP 7118Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  26. HIP 6502Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  27. HIP 114366Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  28. Lambda-2 SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  29. HIP 7016Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  30. HIP 1096Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  31. HIP 7643Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  32. HIP 5661Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  33. HIP 2159Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  34. Lambda-1 SculptorisJust seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  35. HIP 117931Just seen from a dark place, 880 light years
  36. HIP 4363Just seen from a dark place, 950 light years
  37. HIP 7361Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  38. HIP 1099Just seen from a dark place, 870 light years
  39. HIP 1195Just seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  40. HIP 7886Just seen from a dark place, 140 light years
  41. HIP 117107Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  42. HIP 114969Just seen from a dark place, 2,500 light years
  43. HIP 118076Just seen from a dark place, 970 light years
  44. HIP 4932Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  45. HIP 115833Just seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  46. HIP 117860Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  47. HIP 115178Just seen from a dark place, 590 light years
  48. HIP 6971Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  49. HIP 345Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  50. HIP 2663Just seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  51. HIP 3056Just seen from a dark place, 890 light years
  52. HIP 5042Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  53. HIP 117510Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  54. HIP 115121Just seen from a dark place, 820 light years
  55. CocibolcaNeeds a telescope, 110 light years
  56. UúbaNeeds a telescope, 250 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.