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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
87 Vir Vir 5.41 676.7 257.04 M2III
18 Boo Boo 5.41 85.1 4.07 F5IV
44Eta Lib Lib 5.41 149.2 12.50 A6IV
HIP 77859 ◈ Sco 5.41 426.9 102.33 B2V
HIP 80693 Oph 5.41 407.2 93.07 K4IIIp
HIP 83838 Her 5.41 177.0 17.57 A5m
HIP 85537 Oph 5.41 194.5 21.22 A8V
HIP 89772 Oph 5.41 152.6 13.07 K2III
HIP 90023 Her 5.41 651.0 237.90 K5III
HIP 91235 Lyr 5.41 504.1 142.56 B8II-IIIp..
14 Cyg Cyg 5.41 652.3 238.78 B9III
HIP 97646 Pav 5.41 277.1 43.09 A0IV
51 Cyg Cyg 5.41 1,274.0 911.17 B2V
Sig Pav Pav 5.41 302.0 51.19 K0III
HIP 104750 Mic 5.41 366.9 75.51 K3III
Kap1Scl Scl 5.42 252.6 35.48 F3V
HIP 2240 Phe 5.42 375.8 78.49 M0III
23 Cas Cas 5.42 771.1 330.52 B8III
39 Cet ◈ Cet 5.42 262.8 38.41 G5III-IVe
HIP 6592 Phe 5.42 235.7 30.87 K0III
55 And And 5.42 630.9 221.41 K1III
60 Cet Cet 5.42 280.9 43.89 A5III
70 Cet Cet 5.42 261.3 37.98 F0Vn
HIP 20776 Cep 5.42 967.8 520.95 G6III:
HIP 31299 Col 5.42 391.5 85.27 K3III
28 Gem Gem 5.42 476.1 126.12 K4III
HIP 36778 ◈ Pup 5.42 1,186.0 781.99 B2Vne
HIP 41817 Pyx 5.42 345.1 66.25 B9.5IV/V
72Tau Cnc Cnc 5.42 273.6 41.65 G8III
37 Leo Leo 5.42 585.6 190.72 M1III
HIP 57512 ◈ Cen 5.42 702.9 274.66 K5III
HIP 61309 CVn 5.42 291.5 47.25 K0IIICN...
La Superba ◈ CVn 5.42 1,045.4 607.58 C7Iab
106 Vir Vir 5.42 624.8 217.17 K5III
HIP 80390 Sco 5.42 420.8 98.45 B8V
HIP 91494 ◈ CrA 5.42 639.5 227.40 M2III
5Iot Del Del 5.42 189.0 19.86 A2V
7 Cep Cep 5.42 805.3 360.74 B7V
5 Psc Psc 5.42 265.8 39.30 G8IV
57 Cet Cet 5.43 588.7 190.90 M0/M1III
HIP 9372 ◈ Cet 5.43 476.1 124.97 M3III
HIP 11029 Cet 5.43 96.7 5.16 F0V
14 Per Per 5.43 982.4 531.62 G0Ib
16 Ori Ori 5.43 178.4 17.54 A2m
17 Cam Cam 5.43 939.9 486.63 M1III
HIP 31121 Mon 5.43 698.4 268.66 K2III
HIP 43082 ◈ Vel 5.43 — 58,613,816 B3Ia
Zet Oct Oct 5.43 162.3 14.51 F0III
Nu Cha Cha 5.43 184.4 18.72 G8III
46 Leo Leo 5.43 693.9 265.46 M2III
HIP 54173 Ant 5.43 517.7 147.64 A0V
HIP 54477 Hya 5.43 181.5 18.15 A1V
Tianyi 7 Dra Dra 5.43 741.3 302.83 K5III
HIP 74941 Cir 5.43 — 58,613,816 O7Iab:
HIP 76618 Nor 5.43 408.7 92.04 B9V
12Lam CrB CrB 5.43 135.6 10.13 F0IV
HIP 78246 ◈ Sco 5.43 555.6 170.14 B5V
16 Sco Sco 5.43 252.4 35.12 A4V
HIP 83962 Oph 5.43 134.8 10.01 F5IV
34Psi2Dra Dra 5.43 1,055.5 613.76 F2.5II-III
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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.