The Bright Star Catalogue

The Bright Star Catalogue contains 9110 entries of all stars brighter than magnitude 6.5 (the naked eye visible stars). It's one of the most widely used star catalogues and provides detailed basic astronomical and astrophysical data. The following sites provides the basic data from the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version) (Hoffleit+, 1991, Yale University Observatory) as distributed by the Astronomical Data Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

An offline readable version of the Bright Star Catalogue is distributed with the Bright Star Catalogue Viewer.

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And Andromeda Ant Antlia Aps Apus Aqr Aquarius
Aql Aquila Ara Ara Ari Aries Aur Auriga
Boo Bootes Cae Caelum Cam Camelopardalis Cnc Cancer
CVn Canes Venatici CMa Canis Major CMi Canis Minor Cap Capricornus
Car Carina Cas Cassiopeia Cen Centaurus Cep Cepheus
Cet Cetus Cha Chamaeleon Cir Circinus Col Columba
Com Coma Berenices CrA Corona Australis CrB Corona Borealis Crv Corvus
Crt Crater Cru Crux Cyg Cygnus Del Delphinus
Dor Dorado Dra Draco Equ Equuleus Eri Eridanus
For Fornax Gem Gemini Gru Grus Her Hercules
Hor Horologium Hya Hydra Hyi Hydrus Ind Indus
Lac Lacerta Leo Leo LMi Leo Minor Lep Lepus
Lib Libra Lup Lupus Lyn Lynx Lyr Lyra
Men Mensa Mic Microscopium Mon Monoceros Mus Musca
Nor Norma Oct Octans Oph Ophiuchus Ori Orion
Pav Pavo Peg Pegasus Per Perseus Phe Phoenix
Pic Pictor Psc Pisces PsA Piscis Austrinus Pup Puppis
Pyx Pyxis Ret Reticulum Sge Sagitta Sgr Sagittarius
Sco Scorpius Scl Sculptor Sct Scutum Ser Serpens
Sex Sextans Tau Taurus Tel Telescopium Tri Triangulum
TrA Triangulum Australe Tuc Tucana UMa Ursa Major UMi Ursa Minor
Vel Vela Vir Virgo Vol Volans Vul Vulpecula