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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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White dwarf
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
Karaka Aps 8.71 128.0 0.44 K0/K1V
Hunor Her 8.72 373.2 3.71 F8
Bibhā Sex 8.73 310.9 2.55 F8
Funi Dra 8.75 215.4 1.20 G0
Babcock's star ◈ Lac 8.83 — 2,558,586 A0p
Cygnus X-1 ◈ Cyg 8.84 1,941.4 89.78 B0Ib
Red Rectangle ◈ Mon 8.85 1,436.8 48.75 B8
Kapteyn's Star ◈ Pic 8.86 12.8 0.00 M0V
Struve 2398 A Dra 8.94 11.6 0.00 K5
Uruk Sge 8.97 386.4 3.16 F8V
Amadioha CMa 8.98 183.6 0.71 G8/K0IV/V
Shama Leo 9.10 162.8 0.50 K0
Ceibo Cha 9.37 112.7 0.19 K4V
Barnard's Star ◈ Oph 9.54 5.9 0.00 sdM4
Kruger 60 ◈ Cep 9.59 13.0 0.00 M2V
Felixvarela Cet 9.62 116.4 0.16 K5V
Pincoya Sgr 9.62 133.9 0.21 K2
Struve 2398 B Dra 9.70 11.3 0.00 K5
Solaris Peg 9.78 157.7 0.25 K5
Uúba Scl 9.79 251.5 0.63 G8
Luyten's Star CMi 9.84 12.4 0.00 M5
Intan For 9.92 150.7 0.20 K3/K4IV
Campbell's Hydrogen Star ◈ Cyg 10.00 — 870,964 WC...
Wolf 1061 ◈ Oph 10.10 14.0 0.00 M4
Añañuca Vel 10.22 32.2 0.01 M1:
Koeia Eri 10.25 75.1 0.04 M0
Ross 154 ◈ Sgr 10.37 9.7 0.00 M3.5Ve
Noquisi Leo 10.67 33.1 0.00 M3
Proxima Centauri ◈ Cen 11.01 4.2 0.00 M5Ve
Danfeng Tuc 11.03 86.0 0.02 M2
Ross 128 Vir 11.12 10.9 0.00 M4.5V
Ross 614 ◈ Mon 11.12 13.5 0.00 M4.5Ve
Sharjah Sco 11.34 47.0 0.01 —
Gar Vir 11.39 27.3 0.00 M4
Ross 248 And 12.29 10.3 0.00 dM6 e
Kaewkosin Cnc 12.33 75.9 0.01 m
Ross 687 Hya 12.37 68.3 0.00 M4
Van Maanen's Star Psc 12.37 13.9 0.00 DG
EZ Aqr Aqr 12.66 11.1 0.00 M5 e
Ross 686 Hya 12.68 80.0 0.00 dM4
3C 273 Vir 12.88 — 61,376 —
Wolf 359 Leo 13.45 7.8 0.00 M6
Maru Vol 13.92 75.9 0.00 DQ5
Onkaria Oph 14.67 42.1 0.00 m
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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.