Heliocodex

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Volans

32 stars in Volans can be seen by eye from a dark place. One 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

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

  1. Beta VolantisSeen away from bright lights, 110 light years
  2. Gamma-2 VolantisSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  3. Zeta VolantisSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  4. Delta VolantisSeen away from bright lights, 740 light years
  5. Alpha VolantisSeen away from bright lights, 120 light years
  6. Epsilon VolantisSeen away from bright lights, 560 light years
  7. HIP 40680Just seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  8. HIP 33682Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  9. Theta VolantisJust seen from a dark place, 240 light years
  10. Eta VolantisJust seen from a dark place, 380 light years
  11. Kappa-1 VolantisJust seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  12. HIP 43414Just seen from a dark place, 170 light years
  13. Iota VolantisJust seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  14. HIP 41451Just seen from a dark place, 280 light years
  15. Kappa-2 VolantisJust seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  16. Gamma-1 VolantisJust seen from a dark place, 160 light years
  17. HIP 38210Just seen from a dark place, 490 light years
  18. HIP 44283Just seen from a dark place, 710 light years
  19. HIP 41321Just seen from a dark place, 370 light years
  20. HIP 42895Just seen from a dark place, 190 light years
  21. HIP 32332Just seen from a dark place, 640 light years
  22. HIP 43351Just seen from a dark place, 2,000 light years
  23. HIP 41907Just seen from a dark place, 400 light years
  24. HIP 37720Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  25. HIP 42850Just seen from a dark place, 930 light years
  26. HIP 36914Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  27. HIP 39041Just seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  28. HIP 32222Just seen from a dark place, 450 light years
  29. HIP 37773Just seen from a dark place, 630 light years
  30. HIP 36346Just seen from a dark place, 720 light years
  31. HIP 34270Just seen from a dark place, 530 light years
  32. HIP 35946Just seen from a dark place, 270 light years
  33. MaruNeeds a telescope, 76 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.