Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Telescopium

56 stars in Telescopium 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

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

  1. Alpha TelescopiiEasy to see, 280 light years
  2. Zeta TelescopiiSeen away from bright lights, 130 light years
  3. Epsilon TelescopiiSeen away from bright lights, 420 light years
  4. Lambda TelescopiiSeen away from bright lights, 610 light years
  5. Iota TelescopiiSeen away from bright lights, 370 light years
  6. Delta-1 TelescopiiSeen away from bright lights, 710 light years
  7. Xi TelescopiiSeen away from bright lights, 1,100 light years
  8. Eta TelescopiiJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  9. Delta-2 TelescopiiJust seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  10. Rho TelescopiiJust seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  11. Kappa TelescopiiJust seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  12. Nu TelescopiiJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  13. HIP 89605Just seen from a dark place, 760 light years
  14. HIP 94712Just seen from a dark place, 550 light years
  15. HIP 90414Just seen from a dark place, 500 light years
  16. HIP 92630Just seen from a dark place, 1,000 light years
  17. HIP 96178Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  18. HIP 99747Just seen from a dark place, 690 light years
  19. HIP 90662Just seen from a dark place, 650 light years
  20. HIP 95690Just seen from a dark place, 540 light years
  21. HIP 97816Just seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  22. HIP 96141Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  23. HIP 92367Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  24. HIP 91461Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  25. HIP 97598Just seen from a dark place, 1,300 light years
  26. HIP 93624Just seen from a dark place, 330 light years
  27. HIP 93862Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  28. HIP 89597Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  29. HIP 89096Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  30. HIP 94398Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  31. HIP 100184Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  32. HIP 95866Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  33. HIP 92669Just seen from a dark place, 820 light years
  34. HIP 92676Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  35. HIP 98482Just seen from a dark place, 340 light years
  36. HIP 91062Just seen from a dark place, 660 light years
  37. HIP 96781Just seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  38. HIP 96721Just seen from a dark place, 360 light years
  39. HIP 92072Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  40. HIP 99137Just seen from a dark place, 76 light years
  41. HIP 100412Just seen from a dark place, 100 light years
  42. HIP 100300Just seen from a dark place, 920 light years
  43. HIP 97491Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  44. HIP 100151Just seen from a dark place, 980 light years
  45. HIP 93860Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  46. Mu TelescopiiJust seen from a dark place, 110 light years
  47. HIP 92687Just seen from a dark place, 1,400 light years
  48. HIP 94858Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  49. HIP 95239Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  50. HIP 94054Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  51. HIP 90223Just seen from a dark place, 92 light years
  52. HIP 99270Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  53. HIP 91662Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  54. HIP 99666Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  55. HIP 99188Just seen from a dark place, 180 light years
  56. HIP 97819Just seen from a dark place, 200 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.