List of stars in Antlia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Star

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s in the constellation

Constellation

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Antlia
Antlia
Antlia is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name means "pump" and it specifically represents an air pump. The stars comprising Antlia are faint, and the constellation was not created until the 18th century...

, 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
α Ant Alpha Antliae Alpha Antliae is the brightest star in the constellation of Antlia but it has not been given a proper name. It is approximately 370 light-years from the Solar System. It is a K-type giant star that varies in apparent visual magnitude between 4.22 and 4.29...	α	67	90610	51172	4.28	−0.97	366	K4III	suspected variable Variable star A star is classified as variable if its apparent magnitude as seen from Earth changes over time, whether the changes are due to variations in the star's actual luminosity, or to variations in the amount of the star's light that is blocked from reaching Earth...
ε Ant Epsilon Antliae Epsilon Antliae is a star in the constellation Antlia. This is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.51. It is approximately 700 light years from Earth.-References:* *...	ε	2	82150	46515	4.51	−2.15	700	K3III
ι Ant Iota Antliae Iota Antliae is a star in the constellation Antlia. This is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.60. It is approximately 199 light years from Earth.-References:* *...	ι	84	94890	53502	4.60	0.67	199	K0III
θ Ant Theta Antliae Theta Antliae or IDS 09397-2719 B is a binary star in the constellation Antlia. It is approximately 384 light years from Earth and has a combined apparent magnitude of +4.78....	θ	23	84367	47758	4.78	−0.58	384	A7V+...	binary star Binary star A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called the primary and the other is its companion star, comes, or secondary...
η Ant Eta Antliae Eta Antliae is a double star in the constellation Antlia. This is a yellow-white F-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.23 located approximately 106 light years from Earth. It has a companion located 31 arcseconds away that has an apparent magnitude of +11.3....	η	38	86629	48926	5.23	2.66	106	A8IV	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...
		64	90132	50888	5.34	2.30	132	A8V
		85	96146	54173	5.43	−0.63	530	A0V
		3	82205	46578	5.49	−1.36	763	K2IIICNII	double star
U Ant U Antliae U Antliae is a star in the constellation Antlia.U Antliae is a red C-type carbon star and is an irregular variable star. Its brightness varies by 1.6 magnitudes. It is approximately 836 light years from Earth.-References:* * * *...		71	91793	51821	5.50	−1.54	836	C6,3(N0)	carbon star Carbon star A carbon star is a late-type star similar to a red giant whose atmosphere contains more carbon than oxygen; the two elements combine in the upper layers of the star, forming carbon monoxide, which consumes all the oxygen in the atmosphere, leaving carbon atoms free to form other carbon compounds,... ; irregular variable Irregular variable An irregular variable is a type of variable star in which variations in brightness show no regular periodicity. There are two main sub-types of irregular variable: eruptive and pulsating.Eruptive irregular variables are divided into three categories:... ,
AG Ant AG Antliae AG Antliae or HD 89353 is a post-asymptotic giant branch star.-External links:* * * * * * * *...		59	89353	50456	5.52	−3.60	2173	B9.5Ib/II	α Cyg variable Alpha Cygni variable Alpha Cygni variables are variable stars which exhibit non-radial pulsations, meaning that some portions of the stellar surface are contracting at the same time others parts expand. They are supergiant stars of spectral types B or A... ,
δ Ant Delta Antliae Delta Antliae is a binary star star system in the constellation Antlia. It is approximately 481 light years from Earth....	δ	68	90972	51376	5.57	−0.27	481	B9/B9.5V	suspected variable
		80	93905	52965	5.61	0.48	346	A1V
		17	83380	47199	5.62	1.05	267	K1III
		78	92845	52407	5.63	−0.71	605	A0V	double star
		16	83332	47187	5.68	0.91	293	K0III
ζ¹ Ant B	ζ¹	8	82383	46657	5.75	0.46	372	A0	binary star
		36	86267	48748	5.83	−0.01	479	K1III
		11	82514	46736	5.86	1.15	285	K3III	triple star
ζ² Ant	ζ²	10	82513	46734	5.91	0.61	374	A9IV
		55	88809	50103	5.91	0.21	450	K1III	double star
		31	85206	48191	5.95	0.47	407	K2III
		18	83441	47224	5.96	0.89	337	K2III
		49	88218	49769	6.14	3.70	100	G1V	binary star
		4	82165	46517	6.15	2.18	203	A6V
		58	89015	50234	6.17	0.91	367	K0III
ζ¹ Ant A	ζ¹	9	82384		6.18				component of the ζ¹ Ant system
		63	90071	50868	6.25	2.60	175	A9IV
		44	87606	49418	6.27	0.71	422	K1III
		33	85725	48468	6.28	2.50	186	G1V	double star
		53	88522	49967	6.28	0.31	509	A0V	double star
		60	89442	50492	6.31	−0.04	608	K2/K3III
BF Ant		37	86301	48776	6.32	0.38	502	A4V	δ Scuti variable Delta Scuti variable A Delta Scuti variable is a variable star which exhibits variations in its luminosity due to both radial and non-radial pulsations of the star's surface. Typical brightness fluctuations are from 0.003 to 0.9 magnitudes in V over a period of a few hours, although the amplitude and period of the...
		56	88836	50122	6.33	0.64	448	G8III	double star
		48	88013	49645	6.34	0.05	590	K0III
		32	85296	48219	6.36	0.20	555	K0III
		76	92589	52273	6.36	−0.28	695	G8/K0III+..	double star
		54	88742	50075	6.38	4.60	74	G0V
		22	84224	47627	6.39	−1.80	1417	Asp...
		43	87477	49343	6.42	−0.03	637	K1III
S Ant S Antliae S Antliae is a W Ursae Majoris-type eclipsing binary variable star in Antlia. It varies in apparent magnitude from 6.27 to 6.83 over a period of 15.6 hours.-References:*...		12	82610	46810	6.43	2.05	245	A9V	W Uma variable W Ursae Majoris W Ursae Majoris is a variable star in the constellation Ursa Major. It is an eclipsing contact binary whose two component stars share a common outer layer, and is the prototype of a class of contact binary variables known as W Ursae Majoris variables... ,
		13	82785	46874	6.43	2.12	237	F2IV/V	binary star
		25	84567	47868	6.45	−5.59	8359	B0IV
		14	83108	47039	6.48	2.47	207	F5V
HD 93083 HD 93083 HD 93083 is an 8th magnitude star located approximately 94 light years away in the southern constellation of Antlia. It is an orange dwarf , somewhat cooler and less luminous than our Sun.-Planetary system:...			93083	52521	8.33	6.03	94	K2V	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 93083 b HD 93083 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 93083 in Antlia constellation. It is probably much less massive than Jupiter, although only the minimum mass is known. The planet's mean distance from the star is about half that of Earth, and the orbit is slightly eccentric... )
UX Ant UX Antliae UX Antliae is post-AGB star. Variable star R Coronae Borealis type....					12.20(B)		700	hglsg	R CrB variable R Coronae Borealis variable A R Coronae Borealis variable is an eruptive variable star that varies in luminosity in two modes, one low amplitude pulsation , and one irregular unpredictably sudden fading by 1 to 9 magnitudes... ,
DEN 1048-3956					17.39	19.37	13.2	M8.5V	28th nearest star system; nearby low mass star or brown dwarf Brown dwarf Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects which are too low in mass to sustain hydrogen-1 fusion reactions in their cores, which is characteristic of stars on the main sequence. Brown dwarfs have fully convective surfaces and interiors, with no chemical differentiation by depth... ^{http://www.hawaii.edu/ur/News_Releases/NR_Nov00/lowmass.html}

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