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.

White dwarf

Brown dwarf

Star	Constellation	Magnitude	Distance (ly)	Luminosity (Suns)	Spectral type
Omi Pup ◈	Pup	4.40	1,418.1	2,860.22	B1IV:nne
HIP 39487 ◈	Pup	5.25	2,090.7	2,841.84	M2II
HIP 5926 ◈	Cas	5.87	2,764.0	2,808.02	K1V
HIP 31407	Car	4.35	1,364.7	2,774.60	B9III
HIP 53546	Car	6.16	3,136.1	2,766.94	K1II
Markeb Kap Vel	Vel	2.47	572.2	2,756.77	B2IV
Alniyat 20Sig Sco ◈	Sco	2.90	696.9	2,751.69	B1III
HIP 41616	Vel	5.33	2,131.7	2,746.63	B2IV
6 Cep ◈	Cep	5.19	1,988.8	2,718.94	B3IVe
HIP 66925	Cen	6.00	2,886.3	2,716.44	B0.5III
10 Lac	Lac	4.89	1,725.7	2,698.98	O9V
Aladfar 20Eta Lyr	Lyr	4.43	1,387.9	2,666.86	B2.5IV
HIP 26199	Ori	4.78	1,614.6	2,613.36	B0.5V
Bet Dor ◈	Dor	3.76	1,006.7	2,598.96	F6Ia
HIP 34999	Mon	6.02	2,836.1	2,575.13	B0III
HIP 36514	Pup	4.65	1,503.0	2,553.88	G2Ib...
22 Vul ◈	Vul	5.18	1,918.6	2,553.88	G2Ib SB
31 Peg ◈	Peg	4.82	1,622.7	2,544.49	B2IV-V
21Zet Cep ◈	Cep	3.39	836.3	2,523.48	K1Ibv SB
HIP 74305	Lup	5.45	2,160.0	2,523.48	G2Ib/II
Bet Ara	Ara	2.84	645.9	2,498.04	K3Ib-II
Polaris 1Alp UMi ◈	UMi	1.97	432.6	2,495.74	F7:Ib-IIv SB
47Ome Ori ◈	Ori	4.50	1,382.0	2,477.42	B3IIIe
39Kap Aql	Aql	4.93	1,681.2	2,468.31	B0.5III
HIP 42834	Vel	5.15	1,853.2	2,447.94	B0IIIn
HIP 82669 ◈	Sco	6.28	3,106.2	2,429.96	B1Ia
HIP 33465	Gem	6.26	3,076.9	2,427.73	F2Ib-II
HIP 40155 ◈	Vel	5.77	2,452.3	2,423.26	F7p
Ups2Cen	Cen	4.34	1,269.1	2,421.03	F6II
HIP 72308	Lup	6.07	2,811.7	2,416.57	A1III/IV
Dschubba 7Del Sco ◈	Sco	2.29	491.2	2,396.62	B0.2IV
42 Cyg	Cyg	5.90	2,588.5	2,394.42	A1Ib
32 Cyg ◈	Cyg	3.96	1,058.9	2,392.21	K3Ib-II comp
HIP 3083	Cas	5.45	2,090.7	2,363.74	K5III
139 Tau	Tau	4.81	1,553.1	2,352.88	B1Ib
HIP 36388	Mon	5.60	2,233.9	2,350.72	K5III
HIP 70069	Cen	4.30	1,226.2	2,346.39	B6Ib
HIP 33937	Gem	5.86	2,508.9	2,333.46	M2III
HIP 11174 ◈	Per	6.29	3,048.2	2,318.46	F7Ib
45Eps Per ◈	Per	2.90	638.3	2,307.81	B0.5V
HIP 36773 ◈	Pup	4.82	1,538.5	2,286.65	A4Ia
HIP 69462	Cen	5.53	2,131.7	2,284.55	K5III+...
HIP 40063	Pup	6.42	3,197.6	2,263.60	B0III
Lesath 34Ups Sco	Sco	2.70	576.2	2,261.52	B2IV
HIP 73536	Vir	5.71	2,296.9	2,246.98	M2III
HIP 39617	Pup	6.15	2,811.7	2,244.92	G1Ib
24 Sgr	Sgr	5.49	2,064.3	2,222.29	K3III
HIP 74707	Lup	5.15	1,763.0	2,216.15	F:+...
HIP 81733	Ara	5.62	2,189.0	2,216.15	B1II
HIP 87928	Ara	6.26	2,938.3	2,214.11	B4III
HIP 55667	Cen	6.13	2,764.0	2,210.04	B2IV-V
HIP 40639	Pup	6.42	3,136.1	2,177.71	M0III + A3/5
HIP 84731	Ara	5.93	2,489.7	2,155.76	K2IIICN...
Atria Alp TrA	TrA	1.91	390.6	2,151.79	K2IIb-IIIa
HIP 81847	Ara	6.22	2,836.1	2,141.90	F5Iab
HIP 86246	Sco	6.26	2,886.3	2,137.96	G2Ib
Alp Pyx	Pyx	3.68	879.1	2,134.03	B1.5III
35 Aqr	Aqr	5.80	2,329.7	2,126.18	B2III
Alp Lup ◈	Lup	2.30	464.6	2,124.22	B1.5III
HIP 35933 ◈	Gem	6.47	3,166.6	2,120.31	B2Ve

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.