The

Internet STELLAR DATABASE



All the dirt on your favorite stars! Well, on those nearby stars within 75 light-years, anyway. (Plus some of the more well-known "name brand" stars farther away.) And even then, I skipped a heck of a lot of solitary red dwarfs for which half-decent data weren't available. Oh, and this site should probably have a few more goodies added to it in various places. But don't let that stop you.

Search for a star by name (e.g. Omicron(2) Eridani, or The Dog Star):









OR, search for a star by its exact catalog number (use a * to indicate a degrees sign):

2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) A (Aitken) AC (Catalogue Astrographique) ADS (Aitken Double Star) AGC (A.G. Clark) AGK3R (AGK3 Reference) AOe B (W.H. van den Bos) BD (Bonner Durchmusterung) BPM (Bruce Proper Motion) BSO (Brisbane Observatory (Sandage & Veron)) BU (S.W. Burnham) CC CD (Cordoba Durchmusterung) CFS (Cape Faint Star) CHR (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy) CI 18 (Cincinatti obs. 18) CI 20 (Cincinatti obs. 20) COO (Cordoba Observatory) Cordoba COU (Couteau) CPC (Chopped Photometric Channel) CPD (Cape Photographic Durchmusterung) DAW (Dawson) DENIS (Deep Near-Infrared Survey) DON (Donner) DUN (Dunlop) EG (Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf) FIN (Finsen) FK4 (Fourth Fundamental Catalogue) FK4 Sup (FK4 Supplement) FK5 (Fifth Fundamental Catalogue) FK5 Ext (FK5 Extension) G (Giclas) GC (Boss General Catalogue) GCSVS (New Catalog of Suspected Variable Stars) GD (Giclas white Dwarf) GH (Giclas Hyades) GJ (Gliese & Jahreiss) Gl (Gliese) GRB (Groombridge) GSC (Guide Star Catalog) H (Herschel) HD (Henry Draper) HDE (Henry Draper Extension) HDO (Harvard Observatory) HEI (Heintz) HIC (Hipparcos Input Catalog) HJ (J. Herschel) HO (Hough) HR (Hoffleit Bright Star) HTG (Hastings) HU (Hussey) HZ (Humason & Zwicky) I (Innes) IRC (Caltech 2-microns Survey) IRS (International Reference Star) J (Jonckheere) KPR (Kamper) KR (Krüger) KUI (Kuiper) L (Luyten) Lac (Lacaille) LAL (Lalande) LB (Luyten Blue star) LDS (Luyten Double Star) LET LFT (Luyten FT) LHS (Luyten Half-Second) LP (Luyten Palomar) LTT (Luyten Two-Tenth) McC (Vyssotsky McCormick) MLO (Melbourne Observatory) NSV (New Suspected Variable) RECONS (Research Consortium on Nearby Stars) Rob Ross RST (Rossiter) SAN (Sanford) SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) SEE (See) SHJ (South & Herschel) SIPS (Southern Infrared Proper motion Survey) Sm (Smethells) SO SRS (Southern Reference System) Steph STF (Struve) STI (Stein) STT (O. Struve) UC UGPMF USN (U.S. Naval Observatory) VB VDK (Vanderdonck) VYS (Vyssotsky) WD (McCook & Sion White Dwarf) WDS (Washington Double Star) WIR (Wirtanen) Wo (Woolley) Wolf WOR (Worley) YZ (Yale Zone)







OR, search for all stars within light-years of galactic coordinates:

X= , Y= , Z=

with Right Ascension between:

h m s and h m s

and with Declination between:

° ' " and ° ' "





Quicky introduction to stellar astronomy

What the fields for each star mean

The scale of interstellar space

How stars evolve over their lifetimes

How stars are named

Guidelines for submissions

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