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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
56 Gem Gem 5.09 443.1 148.05 M0III
HIP 36114 Car 5.09 605.1 275.93 K0III
12 Pup Pup 5.09 860.6 558.21 G8II
HIP 40321 ◈ Pup 5.09 1,016.1 777.68 B2V:
HIP 43413 ◈ Vel 5.09 — 80,167,806 B0III
HIP 46283 Vel 5.09 429.2 138.80 B6V
HIP 47965 ◈ UMa 5.09 552.8 230.36 M3III
HIP 48224 Vel 5.09 842.8 535.06 B7III
HIP 55597 Mus 5.09 403.7 122.80 B5
6 Com Com 5.09 198.6 29.73 A3V
36 Ser Ser 5.09 162.3 19.84 A3Vn
HIP 79302 Sco 5.09 317.9 76.14 K0III
87 Her Her 5.09 211.9 33.85 K2III
HIP 90037 CrA 5.09 484.6 177.01 K4/K5III
16Eta Sge Sge 5.09 160.4 19.37 K2III
75 Cyg Cyg 5.09 403.7 122.80 M1IIIvar
16 Peg ◈ Peg 5.09 632.1 301.16 B3V
HIP 109102 Lac 5.09 608.5 279.00 K5III
Eps Oct ◈ Oct 5.09 290.7 63.68 M6III
2 And And 5.09 421.4 133.78 A3Vn
66 Peg Peg 5.09 388.3 113.66 K3III
77 Peg Peg 5.09 618.9 288.67 M2III
21 Per ◈ Per 5.10 319.8 76.35 B9p...
63Tau2Ari Ari 5.10 317.6 75.30 K3III
HIP 19461 Cep 5.10 379.7 107.65 G8III+...
66 Tau Tau 5.10 395.8 116.95 A3V
Eps Dor Dor 5.10 574.2 246.15 B6V
HIP 57613 ◈ Hya 5.10 545.4 222.02 M4III
HIP 64803 Cen 5.10 257.6 49.57 K0III
HIP 70400 Vir 5.10 159.0 18.88 A5V
5 Her Her 5.10 250.9 46.99 G8III
HIP 82129 ◈ TrA 5.10 696.9 362.74 Ap
HIP 85162 Sco 5.10 737.9 406.63 B7III
101 Her Her 5.10 328.8 80.69 A8III
23 Aql Aql 5.10 371.1 102.80 K2II-IIIvar
25 Aqr Aqr 5.10 226.5 38.30 K0III
46 Cap Cap 5.10 791.6 468.17 G8II-III
HIP 113561 ◈ Cas 5.10 — 79,432,823 G0Ia
Gam1Oct Oct 5.10 265.2 52.48 G7III
48 Cet Cet 5.11 232.8 40.11 A0V
HIP 18213 Eri 5.11 346.2 88.72 B6/B7V
68 Eri Eri 5.11 83.0 5.10 F2V
43 Cam Cam 5.11 979.4 709.90 B7III
HIP 35406 ◈ Pup 5.11 756.7 423.84 A0V
19 LMi LMi 5.11 91.8 6.23 F6Vs
HIP 54461 ◈ Car 5.11 — 78,704,579 B9Ia
HIP 65535 Cen 5.11 203.3 30.59 Kp...
Kap TrA TrA 5.11 1,208.0 1,079.44 G6VII
2Mu Lyr Lyr 5.11 439.0 142.56 A3IVn
Lam CrA CrA 5.11 205.3 31.16 A0/A1V
59 Dra Dra 5.11 89.0 5.87 A9V
Phi2Pav Pav 5.11 80.4 4.79 F8V
Iot Mic Mic 5.11 115.5 9.87 F1IV
HIP 108317 ◈ Cep 5.11 2,452.3 4,450.41 M2 comp
Mu 2Gru Gru 5.11 265.4 52.10 G8III
HIP 111795 Lac 5.11 451.1 150.52 M4III
13 Lac Lac 5.11 256.6 48.71 K0III
Phi Phe Phe 5.12 306.8 68.99 A3V
Mu Hor Hor 5.12 141.6 14.70 F0IV
66 Eri ◈ Eri 5.12 308.9 69.95 B9.5V
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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.