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Stars

119,625 real stars from the HYG catalog: every Hipparcos star, with distances, brightnesses, spectral types and luminosities.

Source: the HYG stellar database v4.1 (CC BY-SA), built from the Hipparcos, Yale and Gliese catalogs. 464 stars carry proper names; the rest go by catalog numbers, as astronomers know them. Blank cells mean the catalog holds no measured value, never a guess. The galaxy holds 100–400 billion stars; this is the well-measured neighborhood.

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The spectral classesO B A F G K M

Every star in the catalogue below belongs to one of these families, from hottest blue to coolest red. The Sun is a G.

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Brown dwarf
Brightest in our sky Nearest to the Sun Most luminous Stars with proper names Variable stars
StarConstellationMagnitude Distance (ly)Luminosity (Suns)Spectral type
HIP 90216 Pav 9.00 247.5 1.26 F5V
HIP 96605 Sgr 9.73 247.5 0.64 G8/K0V
HIP 102465 Ind 13.51 247.5 0.02 —
HIP 104370 Ind 9.70 247.5 0.66 G5/G6V:
HIP 112890 Psc 8.87 247.5 1.42 F5
HIP 3400 Scl 10.12 247.7 0.45 K1/K2V
HIP 3915 Cet 9.47 247.7 0.82 G0
HIP 5073 Psc 7.93 247.7 3.38 F8
HIP 29601 CMa 7.91 247.7 3.44 G2V
HIP 30310 Pic 10.87 247.7 0.23 —
HIP 74054 Lup 8.99 247.7 1.27 F7V
HIP 87435 Oph 7.60 247.7 4.58 F2
HIP 89874 ◈ Ser 10.59 247.7 0.29 K5Ve+K7Ve Li
HIP 95983 Aql 8.26 247.7 2.49 G0IV
HIP 4794 Scl 6.61 247.8 11.42 K0IIICNIV
HIP 7136 Phe 8.06 247.8 3.00 F3/F5V
HIP 7210 Psc 8.69 247.8 1.68 G0
HIP 8188 Cet 8.51 247.8 1.98 G1/G2V
HIP 11160 Hor 7.02 247.8 7.83 F5V
HIP 40729 Lyn 8.49 247.8 2.02 F8
HIP 43374 Car 9.20 247.8 1.05 G2V
HIP 6378 Cas 6.37 248.0 14.26 F0IVn
HIP 7456 Psc 6.78 248.0 9.77 F8
HIP 8527 For 8.47 248.0 2.06 G1V
HIP 12438 Cet 10.80 248.0 0.24 —
HIP 15042 Eri 11.77 248.0 0.10 —
HIP 15985 Per 7.91 248.0 3.45 F2
HIP 16864 Eri 9.67 248.0 0.68 —
HIP 17930 Per 6.61 248.0 11.43 F0
HIP 30189 Cam 11.32 248.0 0.15 K2
HIP 43354 ◈ Vel 6.38 248.0 14.13 A2/A3II/III
HIP 48151 Leo 8.68 248.0 1.70 G0
HIP 49508 Sex 7.94 248.0 3.36 F5
HIP 58125 Hya 9.37 248.0 0.90 G3V
HIP 61879 Cen 9.67 248.0 0.68 G3V
HIP 69301 Boo 10.77 248.0 0.25 K2
HIP 70823 Boo 8.58 248.0 1.86 F8
HIP 71002 Cir 5.84 248.0 23.23 K1III
HIP 86420 Ser 7.57 248.0 4.72 F0V
HIP 86714 Oph 11.82 248.0 0.09 —
HIP 109344 Aqr 8.24 248.0 2.55 G1V
HIP 110357 Ind 11.25 248.0 0.16 —
HIP 3238 Tuc 9.36 248.2 0.91 G3V
HIP 8444 For 8.76 248.2 1.58 F6V
HIP 8872 Psc 7.78 248.2 3.90 G5
HIP 9095 Phe 4.82 248.2 59.54 G8III
HIP 10057 Cet 10.89 248.2 0.22 K4.5
HIP 13748 Ari 10.62 248.2 0.28 —
HIP 13896 Eri 9.16 248.2 1.09 F8
HIP 29833 Gem 8.47 248.2 2.06 F8V
HIP 40136 Hya 7.75 248.2 4.01 F8
HIP 50231 Car 7.88 248.2 3.55 F3V
HIP 55108 Cen 8.50 248.2 2.01 G5
HIP 64901 Cam 7.57 248.2 4.73 F2
HIP 65266 Hya 8.14 248.2 2.80 G1/G2V
HIP 68455 Cir 5.96 248.2 20.84 F0V
HIP 85250 Sco 6.79 248.2 9.70 K0/K1III
HIP 86824 Her 8.23 248.2 2.58 F8
HIP 101854 Pav 8.91 248.2 1.38 G1V
HIP 102703 Del 7.62 248.2 4.52 F8
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Magnitude runs backwards: smaller numbers are brighter (the sky’s brightest star, Sirius, is −1.44). Naked-eye limit is about +6.5 under dark skies. Distances come from measured parallaxes; luminosities are computed from brightness plus distance.