BSC
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. These pages provides the basic data from the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version) (Hoffleit+, 1991, Yale University Observatory) as distributed by the at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
An offline readable version of the Bright Star Catalogue is distributed with the Bright Star Catalogue Viewer.
search for star name | |||
enter name: | examples: |
alcyone will find the star Alcyone Anta will find the star Antares hea will find two stars: Head of Hydrus (HR 591) and Head of Phoenix (HR 99) Polaris will find two stars too: Polaris (HR 424) and Polaris Australis (HR 7228) mi will give a list of 28 results (i.e. Mira, Mizar, Mirphak ...) no input will give a list of 726 star names, ordered by HR numbers search is not case sensitive |
search for Bayer designation | |||
enter Bayer designation: | examples: |
eta Tau will find the star Alcyone alpha Sco will find the star Antares alpha Hyi will find the Head of Hydrus epsilon Lyr will find the four components of this double double gamma Ari will find the two components of this double star: HR 545/546 gamma 2 Ari will find component A (HR 546) only |
search for Flamsteed number | |||
enter Flamsteed number and constellation: | examples: |
25 Tau will find the star Alcyone 21 Sco will find the star Antares 61 Cyg will find the two components of this double star spaces does not need; not case sensitive (i.e. 25tau, 21SCO or 61cYg are valid too) |
search for HR (Harvard Revised) number | |||
enter HR number: | examples: |
1165 will find the star Alcyone 6134 will find the star Antares 8085 will find component A of the double star 61 Cygni |
search for FK5 (5. Fundamentalkatalog) number | |||
enter FK5 number: | examples: |
139 will find the star Alcyone 777 will find the star Deneb 793 will find component A of the double star 61 Cygni |
search for HD (Henry Draper Catalogue) number | |||
enter HD number: | examples: |
23630 will find the star Alcyone 148478 will find the star Antares 201091 will find component A of the double star 61 Cygni |
search for SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog) number | |||
enter SAO number: | examples: |
76199 will find the star Alcyone 184415 will find the star Antares 70919 will find component A of the double star 61 Cygni |