Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Scutum

29 stars in Scutum 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

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

  1. Alpha ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 200 light years
  2. Beta ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 920 light years
  3. Zeta ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 210 light years
  4. Gamma ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 320 light years
  5. Delta ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 200 light years
  6. Eta ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 200 light years
  7. Epsilon ScutiSeen away from bright lights, 540 light years
  8. HIP 92814Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  9. HIP 91105Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  10. HIP 90913Just seen from a dark place, 2,900 light years
  11. HIP 90096Just seen from a dark place, 620 light years
  12. HIP 90991Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  13. HIP 90804Just seen from a dark place, 1,100 light years
  14. HIP 91532Just seen from a dark place, 580 light years
  15. HIP 92488Just seen from a dark place, 2,800 light years
  16. HIP 92391Just seen from a dark place, 1,700 light years
  17. HIP 90651Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  18. HIP 91751Just seen from a dark place, 260 light years
  19. HIP 90692Just seen from a dark place, 460 light years
  20. HIP 92674Just seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  21. HIP 90238Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  22. HIP 91880Just seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  23. HIP 90083Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  24. HIP 90884Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  25. HIP 90967Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  26. HIP 92456Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  27. HIP 92296Just seen from a dark place, 750 light years
  28. HIP 91369Just seen from a dark place, 810 light years
  29. HIP 90437Just seen from a dark place, 320 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.