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
Kap Sco ◈	Sco	2.39	483.2	2,114.46	B1.5III
HIP 54082	Car	6.16	2,740.8	2,112.52	B3III
HIP 113288	Lac	4.99	1,598.8	2,112.52	K5Ibvar
HIP 57240	Leo	6.02	2,568.2	2,110.57	K5III
HIP 7251	Cas	5.69	2,203.8	2,106.69	K0Ib+...
HIP 59200	Cru	6.22	2,811.7	2,104.75	K3/K4II
59 Cyg ◈	Cyg	4.74	1,418.1	2,091.22	B1ne
HIP 3649	Cas	6.41	3,048.2	2,075.87	G0Ib
Spica 67Alp Vir ◈	Vir	0.98	249.7	2,070.14	B1V
HIP 22552 ◈	Cam	6.54	3,229.3	2,066.33	N5
HIP 48799 ◈	Vel	6.13	2,673.4	2,066.33	B3IV
HIP 43392	Vel	6.00	2,508.9	2,051.16	O9V
HIP 82775	Sco	5.78	2,265.0	2,047.39	O8Iab+...
81Pi 2Cyg	Cyg	4.23	1,105.6	2,034.23	B3III
HIP 97651	Cyg	6.13	2,651.7	2,032.36	M3III
HIP 35611 ◈	CMa	6.00	2,489.7	2,021.16	B3V
19Xi Cas	Cas	4.80	1,430.5	2,013.72	B2.5V
HIP 54829	Car	5.74	2,203.8	2,011.87	B1.5V
Mimosa Bet Cru ◈	Cru	1.25	278.5	2,008.17	B0.5III
HIP 70492	Cir	5.56	2,025.8	2,006.32	A3Ib
23 Ori	Ori	4.99	1,553.1	1,993.43	B1V
43The2Ori	Ori	4.98	1,545.8	1,993.43	O9.5Vpe
HIP 51140	Vel	5.58	2,025.8	1,969.70	K3II/III
HIP 80782 ◈	Nor	5.35	1,822.1	1,969.70	B1.5Iap
Miram 15Eta Per	Per	3.77	879.1	1,964.26	K3Ib comp SB
HIP 97634 ◈	Cyg	5.68	2,117.9	1,962.46	B1III
Alfirk 8Bet Cep ◈	Cep	3.23	685.2	1,962.46	B2IIIv SB
Fang 6Pi Sco ◈	Sco	2.89	585.6	1,960.65	B1V + B2V
HIP 111546	Lac	5.73	2,160.0	1,949.84	B1Ve
HIP 77645 ◈	Nor	5.74	2,160.0	1,931.97	B2II
31 Cyg ◈	Cyg	3.80	883.9	1,931.97	K2II+...
HIP 35210	CMa	4.83	1,418.1	1,924.86	K4III
HIP 20417	Tau	5.91	2,329.7	1,921.32	M0III
HIP 24914	Cam	5.64	2,051.3	1,910.73	K4Iab:
HIP 105259 ◈	Cep	5.51	1,929.9	1,907.22	B3Vv comp
HIP 27634	Cam	6.61	3,197.6	1,900.20	F8
62Xi Cyg	Cyg	3.72	842.8	1,889.73	K5Ibv SB
HIP 51849	Car	4.45	1,177.5	1,884.52	K3/K4II
The Ara	Ara	3.65	813.4	1,877.59	B2Ib
HIP 82706	Sco	6.61	3,166.6	1,863.80	WC+...
HIP 30541 ◈	Mon	6.26	2,695.5	1,863.80	K1Iabv SB
HIP 30143	Col	5.55	1,941.4	1,858.66	B3V
HIP 65936	Cen	3.90	906.0	1,850.12	G8II/III
HIP 75257	Boo	5.56	1,941.4	1,841.62	K4III
Almach 57Gam1And	And	2.10	393.0	1,828.10	B8V
HIP 55140 ◈	Car	6.06	2,434.0	1,826.42	M2III
HIP 33532	CMa	6.36	2,787.7	1,818.03	B2V
HIP 32067	Mon	6.36	2,787.7	1,818.03	O6
HIP 60308	Cru	5.91	2,265.0	1,816.35	K4III + (F)
Gam1Nor	Nor	4.97	1,469.2	1,816.35	F9Ia
Eps Cen ◈	Cen	2.29	427.5	1,814.68	B1III
HIP 50044	Car	6.07	2,434.0	1,809.67	B4Ve
HIP 48527 ◈	Vel	5.95	2,296.9	1,801.36	B2V
HIP 87099	Sgr	6.18	2,548.1	1,793.08	G3/G5Ib
Del Pic ◈	Pic	4.72	1,299.4	1,789.78	B0.5IV
22 Cyg	Cyg	4.95	1,443.2	1,784.84	B5IV
HIP 87880	Sgr	6.52	2,965.1	1,775.01	K5II
HIP 18488	Cam	4.99	1,462.6	1,766.85	K3I-II
8 Lep	Lep	5.25	1,647.3	1,765.22	B2IV
HIP 17342	Cam	5.74	2,064.3	1,765.22	K4Ib

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.