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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
18 Tau Tau 5.66 409.2 74.68 B8V
HIP 17584 Per 5.66 748.1 249.57 B6V
31 Tau Tau 5.66 778.4 270.15 B5V
HIP 21823 Per 5.66 296.5 39.19 A0V
HIP 21958 Cae 5.66 642.0 183.82 K3III
HIP 25001 Aur 5.66 288.9 37.22 A1Vs
HIP 32474 Mon 5.66 540.0 130.02 B9.5V
HIP 36981 ◈ Pup 5.66 1,269.1 717.79 B2/3V(n)
HIP 37023 Lyn 5.66 550.0 134.90 M0III
HIP 39919 ◈ Vel 5.66 916.2 374.28 B8Ib/II
HIP 39943 Pup 5.66 1,689.9 1,272.92 B4V
HIP 39957 Car 5.66 393.9 69.18 A3m...
HIP 42372 UMa 5.66 266.5 31.65 G8IV
HIP 46511 Hya 5.66 1,190.4 631.54 K4/K5III
HIP 50520 Car 5.66 262.0 30.59 A1V
HIP 50609 Vel 5.66 1,681.2 1,260.09 K5/M0III
43 UMa UMa 5.66 357.2 56.91 K2III
4 Com Com 5.66 886.3 350.27 K4III
6 Crv Crv 5.66 331.1 48.89 K1III
HIP 67973 Cen 5.66 353.0 55.56 B8V
HIP 80793 Oph 5.66 297.9 39.55 G5III/IV
HIP 84150 Sco 5.66 205.3 18.78 A0/A1V
78 Her Her 5.66 267.6 31.92 A1V
HIP 95619 Sgr 5.66 228.1 23.18 B8/B9V
HIP 96496 Sgr 5.66 397.3 70.34 K0III
HIP 101345 Cap 5.66 79.6 2.82 G3V
HIP 102949 ◈ Vul 5.66 1,203.5 645.65 F5Ib
4 Peg Peg 5.66 178.4 14.19 A9IV-Vn
26 Aqr Aqr 5.66 1,117.0 556.16 K2III
HIP 111809 ◈ PsA 5.66 423.6 80.02 A0V
HIP 113562 PsA 5.66 686.6 210.28 K0IICNIII
HIP 115908 ◈ Tuc 5.66 386.4 66.56 Ap Si
HIP 116591 Aqr 5.66 267.1 31.80 K0III
HIP 655 Scl 5.67 309.7 42.38 K1III
HIP 2383 Phe 5.67 140.5 8.73 F2V
44 And And 5.67 170.5 12.84 F8V
Pi 2Hyi Hyi 5.67 488.3 105.29 K2III
HIP 14521 ◈ Hyi 5.67 270.2 32.24 F2II-III
HIP 16509 Hor 5.67 312.4 43.09 K3III
HIP 18805 Tau 5.67 571.2 144.15 B5V
Del Men Men 5.67 423.6 79.29 K2/K3III+..
HIP 21295 Tau 5.67 484.6 103.75 A2Vs
HIP 24109 Aur 5.67 158.8 11.14 F5V
120 Tau ◈ Tau 5.67 1,553.1 1,065.61 B2IV-Ve
HIP 26197 Ori 5.67 2,695.5 3,209.22 B1Vvar
63 Ori Ori 5.67 1,309.9 757.88 G7III:
HIP 30099 Ori 5.67 593.0 155.31 K3Ib
HIP 41191 Cha 5.67 247.5 27.04 G8III
HIP 41242 Pup 5.67 564.3 140.60 A1III/IV
HIP 42564 Vel 5.67 965.0 411.15 M0III
51Sig1Cnc Cnc 5.67 210.3 19.53 A8Vms
18 Leo Leo 5.67 512.0 115.77 K4III
49 Leo ◈ Leo 5.67 428.6 81.13 A2V
HIP 54137 Vel 5.67 285.9 36.11 A8III/IV
HIP 71783 Cen 5.67 618.9 169.20 Ap Si
46 Boo Boo 5.67 517.7 118.36 K2III
12 Sco Sco 5.67 303.4 40.66 B9V
HIP 80309 Dra 5.67 506.5 113.34 G8III
HIP 80675 Nor 5.67 1,342.2 795.79 B9III
HIP 89000 Oph 5.67 153.1 10.35 F5V
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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.