List of stars in Volans - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Star

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s in the constellation

Constellation

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Volans
Volans
Volans is a constellation in the southern sky. It represents a flying fish; its name is a shortened form of its original name, Piscis Volans...

, sorted by decreasing brightness.

Name	B Bayer designation A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name...	G. Gould designation Gould designations for stars are similar to Flamsteed designations in the way that they number stars within a constellation in increasing order of right ascension. Each star is assigned an integer , followed by " G. " , and then the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in...	HD Henry Draper Catalogue The Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension , published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the...	HIP	vis. mag. Apparent magnitude The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, adjusted to the value it would have in the absence of the atmosphere...	abs. mag. Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness. it is also the apparent magnitude a star would have if it were 32.6 light years away from Earth...	Dist. (ly)	Sp. class Stellar classification In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure...	Notes
β Vol Beta Volantis Beta Volantis is the brightest star of the constellation Volans. Its distance is about 108 light years and spectral class is K1III....	β	29	71878	41312	3.77	1.17	108	K2IIIvar
γ² Vol Gamma Volantis Gamma Volantis is a binary star in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 142 light years from Earth.The primary component, designated γ² Volantis, is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.78. Its companion, γ¹ Volantis, is a yellow-white F-type main sequence dwarf with...	γ²	9	55865	34481	3.78	0.59	142	G8IIIvar	double star Double star In observational astronomy, a double star is a pair of stars that appear close to each other in the sky as seen from Earth when viewed through an optical telescope. This can happen either because the pair forms a binary star, i.e... with γ¹ Vol
ζ Vol Zeta Volantis Zeta Volantis is a binary star in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 134 light years from Earth.The primary component, ζ Volantis A, is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.93. Its companion, the 10th magnitude ζ Volantis B, lies 16.7 arcseconds away....	ζ	16	63295	37504	3.93	0.86	134	K0III
δ Vol Delta Volantis Delta Volantis is a star in the constellation Volans.Delta Volantis is a yellow-white F-type bright giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.97. It is approximately 660 light years from Earth....	δ	10	57623	35228	3.97	−2.56	660	F6II
α Vol Alpha Volantis Alpha Volantis is a star in the constellation Volans.Alpha Volantis is a white A-type subgiant with an apparent magnitude of +4.00. It is approximately 124 light years from Earth....	α	46	78045	44382	4.00	1.09	124	Am
ε Vol Epsilon Volantis Epsilon Volantis is a triple star system in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 642 light years from Earth.The primary component, Epsilon Volantis A, is a spectroscopic binary. It is classified a blue-white B-type subgiant and has an apparent magnitude of +4.35. The binary system has...	ε	22	68520	39794	4.35	−2.12	642	B6IV
		24	70514	40680	5.06	0.27	296	K1III
		6	53501	33682	5.18	0.44	290	K3III
θ Vol Theta Volantis Theta Volantis is a star in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 239 light years from Earth.Theta Volantis is a white A-type main sequence dwarf with an apparent magnitude of +5.19....	θ	35	74405	42425	5.19	0.86	239	A0V
η Vol Eta Volantis Eta Volantis is a triple star system in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 356 light years from Earth.The primary component, η Volantis A, is a white A-type subgiant with an apparent magnitude of +5.28. It has two 12th magnitude companions, η Volantis B and C, 30.8 and 42.4 arcseconds...	η	27	71576	41003	5.28	0.09	356	A0/A1IV/V
κ¹ Vol Kappa Volantis Kappa Volantis is a triple star system in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 393 light years from Earth.The brightest component, κ¹ Volantis, is a blue-white B-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.33. Separated from κ¹ by 65 arcseconds, κ² Volantis is a white A-type subgiant...	κ¹	25	71046	40817	5.33	−0.06	390	B9III/IV	part of the κ Vol triple star Star system A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars which orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction. A large number of stars bound by gravitation is generally called a star cluster or galaxy, although, broadly speaking, they are also star systems.-Binary star systems:A stellar... system
		43	76143	43414	5.34	1.74	171	F5IV
ι Vol Iota Volantis Iota Volantis is a star in the constellation Volans.Iota Volantis is a blue-white B-type subgiant with an apparent magnitude of +5.41. It is approximately 558 light years from Earth....	ι	5	51557	32912	5.41	−0.76	558	B7IV
		30	72337	41451	5.51	0.80	285	A0V
κ² Vol Kappa Volantis Kappa Volantis is a triple star system in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 393 light years from Earth.The brightest component, κ¹ Volantis, is a blue-white B-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.33. Separated from κ¹ by 65 arcseconds, κ² Volantis is a white A-type subgiant...	κ²	26	71066	40834	5.63	0.21	395	A0p	part of the κ Vol triple star system
γ¹ Vol Gamma Volantis Gamma Volantis is a binary star in the constellation Volans. It is approximately 142 light years from Earth.The primary component, designated γ² Volantis, is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.78. Its companion, γ¹ Volantis, is a yellow-white F-type main sequence dwarf with...	γ¹	8	55864	34473	5.68	2.41	147	F2	double star with γ² Vol
		19	64484	38210	5.78	0.04	458	B9V
		45	77887	44283	5.89	−0.95	762	M1III
		28	71863	41321	5.95	0.75	358	G8/K0III
		41	75171	42895	6.03	2.12	198	A9V
		4	50002	32332	6.10	−0.33	629	K3III
		44	76270	43351	6.10	−3.84	3165	A3m...
		33	73468	41907	6.11	0.77	381	G8III
		18	63584	37720	6.16	0.70	403	A0IV/V
		15	62153	36914	6.33	−1.01	959	B9
		20	66920	39041	6.33	0.84	409	A3III
		40	75116	42850	6.33	−1.21	1052	K3III:
		3	49947	32222	6.36	0.81	420	G8III
		17	63513	37773	6.37	−0.12	648	G6/G8III
		12	60150	36346	6.38	−0.22	681	K5III
		7	55151	34270	6.47	0.54	501	K0III
		11	59640	35946	6.49	2.04	253	A3V
		2	49268	31977	6.50	0.88	433	K1IIICN...
HD 76700 HD 76700 HD 76700 is a yellow dwarf star 195 light years from Earth in the constellation of Volans. It has a mass very similar to our Sun, but is cooler and brighter and thus much older. It is orbited by a recently discovered planet....			76700	43686	8.13	4.25	195	G6V	has a planet Extrasolar planet An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars... (b HD 76700 b HD 76700 b is an exoplanet discovered orbiting the star in 2002. The planet is a hot Jupiter with a mass at least 0.233 times that of Jupiter. It orbits very close to its parent star and completes one orbit in less than four days.... )

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