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s in the constellation

Constellation

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Dorado
Dorado
Dorado is a constellation in the southern sky. It was created in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish , which is known as dorado in Spanish, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish...

, 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 Dor Alpha Doradus Alpha Doradus is the brightest star in the constellation of Dorado. It is actually a binary system of two stars, and has an overall apparent visual magnitude which varies between 3.26 and 3.30...	α	8	29305	21281	3.30	−0.36	176	A0IIIp(Si)	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... ; α² CVn variable Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable An Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable is a type of variable star. These stars are chemically peculiar main sequence stars of spectral class B8p to A7p. They have strong magnetic fields and strong silicon, strontium, or chromium spectral lines... ,
β Dor Beta Doradus Beta Doradus is the second brightest star in the constellation of Dorado. It is a Cepheid variable, with an apparent visual magnitude which varies between 3.46 and 4.08. Its spectral type and luminosity class are likewise variable, from F-type to G-type and from a supergiant to a bright...	β	29	37350	26069	3.76	−3.76	1038	F4-G4Ia-II	Cepheid variable Cepheid variable A Cepheid is a member of a class of very luminous variable stars. The strong direct relationship between a Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period, secures for Cepheids their status as important standard candles for establishing the Galactic and extragalactic distance scales.Cepheid... ,
γ Dor Gamma Doradus Gamma Doradus is the third brightest star in the constellation of Dorado. It has an apparent visual magnitude of approximately 4.25 and is a variable star, the type star of the class of Gamma Doradus variables...	γ	3	27290	19893	4.26	2.72	66	F0V-F5V	prototype of γ Dor variables Gamma Doradus variable Gamma Doradus variables are variable stars which display variations in luminosity due to non-radial pulsations of their surface. The stars are typically young, early F or late A type main sequence stars, and typical brightness fluctuations are 0.1 magnitudes with periods on the order of one day... ,
δ Dor Delta Doradus δ Doradus is a faint star in the Dorado constellation that has the distinction of being the Moon's south pole star. It is better aligned than Earth's Polaris , but much fainter.-External links:...	δ	33	39014	27100	4.34	1.10	145	A7V
36 G. Dor		36	40409	27890	4.65	2.47	89	K1III/IV
ζ Dor Zeta Doradus Zeta Doradus is a solitary, yellow-white, main sequence star located thirty-eight light-years away, in the constellation Dorado.This star will be in constellation Pictor around 6400 AD.- External links :* *...	ζ	20	33262	23693	4.71	4.38	38	F7V
θ Dor Theta Doradus θ Dor is a star located in the constellation Dorado. It is about away from planet earth....	θ	22	34649	24372	4.81	−1.31	546	K2III
η² Dor	η²	40	43455	29353	5.01	−1.56	671	M2.5III	suspected variable
ν Dor	ν	39	43107	29134	5.06	0.42	277	B8V
ε Dor Epsilon Doradus Epsilon Doradus is a star located in the constellation Dorado. It is about away from Earth....	ε	34	39844	27534	5.10	−0.88	512	B6V
λ Dor	λ	23	36189	25429	5.14	−0.64	467	G6III
WZ Dor		21	33684	23840	5.19	−1.23	627	M3III	semiregular variable,
κ Dor	κ	12	30478	22040	5.28	1.11	222	A8/A9III/IV
28 G. Dor		28	37297	26001	5.34	1.08	232	G8/K0III	spectroscopic binary
π² Dor	π²	42	46116	30565	5.37	0.81	266	G8III
π¹ Dor	π¹	41	45669	30321	5.56	−0.75	595	K5III
R Dor R Doradus R Doradus is the name of a red giant Mira variable star in the far-southern constellation Dorado, although visually it appears more closely associated with the constellation Reticulum. Its distance from Earth is 204 ± 9 light-years...		9	29712	21479	5.59	1.61	203	M8IIIe	semiregular variable,
η¹ Dor	η¹	38	42525	28909	5.72	0.68	332	A0V
		24	36584	25482	6.02	1.62	248	F0IV/V	double star
		4	27604	20109	6.08	1.73	242	A8V+...	double star
		18	31746	22844	6.11	3.66	101	F3V
		27	36876	25781	6.19	0.75	400	F0IV	double star
		6	28255	20552	6.28	4.12	88	G4V+...	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...
AZ Dor		31	37935	26368	6.28	−0.82	856	B9.5V	Be star Be star A Be star is a B-type star with prominent emission lines of hydrogen in its spectrum. The designation is combined by the spectral class, B, and the lowercase e denoting emission in the spectral classification system. Line emission from other atomic ions might be present as well, but is typically... ; variable,
		43	46730	30973	6.28	1.34	317	F0III
		30	37501	26190	6.32	1.18	348	G5IV
30 Dor R136a R136, formally known as RMC 136, is a super star cluster near the center of the 30 Doradus complex , in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is a young star cluster, 1-2 million years old, of giant and supergiant stars. The majority of its stars are of spectral type O3, with 39 confirmed O3-type stars...		32	38268		9.5	9.63	65.199723 e3	WR	cluster of stars RMC 136
			39963	27660	6.35	−1.32	1116	G8III
		19	31754	22737	6.43	−1.30	1148	M0/M1III	suspected variable
		1	24863	18275	6.46	1.31	349	A4V	suspected variable
		13	30610	22081	6.46	0.73	456	K0/K1III	suspected variable
AB Dor AB Doradus AB Doradus is a pre-main sequence trinary star system in the constellation Dorado. The primary is a flare star that shows periodic increases in activity....		26	36705	25647	6.93		49	K1IIIp...	triple star system 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... ; FK Com variable, ; member of the AB Doradus moving group AB Doradus moving group AB Doradus Moving Group is a group of about 30 associated stars that are moving through space together with the star AB Doradus. A moving group is distinguished by its members having about the same age, composition and motion through space...
HD 28254 HD 28254 HD 28254 is an 8th magnitude G-type main sequence star located approximately 178 light years away in the constellation Dorado. This star is larger, cooler, brighter, and less massive than our Sun. Also its metal content is 2.3 times as much as the Sun. In 2009, a gas giant planet was found in orbit...			28254	20606	7.71	3.96	183	G5V	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 28254 b HD 28254 b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 28254, located approximately 183 light years away in the constellation Dorado. This planet has at least seven-sixths the mass of Jupiter and takes over three years to orbit the star at a semimajor axis of 2.01 AU... )
HD 30177 HD 30177 HD 30177 is an 8th magnitude star located approximately 178 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. The star is a yellow dwarf, a type of yellow star that fuses hydrogen in its core. Since if this star is a late G-type, it is cooler and less massive than the Sun, but larger in radius. It is...			30177	21850	8.41		179	G8V	has a planet (b HD 30177 b HD 30177 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 178 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado, orbiting the star HD 30177. This is one of the most massive planets ever detected by the radial velocity method. In addition, the planet orbits far from the star, about 4 AU away, taking... )
S Dor S Doradus S Doradus is the brightest star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of the Milky Way. A hypergiant, it is one of the most luminous stars known , but so far away that it is invisible to the naked eye.This star belongs to its own eponymous S Doradus class of variable stars S Doradus is the...			35343		9.72			A0-5eq	hypergiant Hypergiant A hypergiant is a star with a tremendous mass and luminosity, showing signs of a very high rate of mass loss.-Characteristics:... in the LMC Large Magellanic Cloud The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby irregular galaxy, and is a satellite of the Milky Way. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs , the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy lying closer to the center... ; prototype of S Dor variables Luminous blue variable Luminous blue variables, also known as S Doradus variables, are very bright, blue, hypergiant variable stars named after S Doradus, the brightest star of the Large Magellanic Cloud. They exhibit long, slow changes in brightness, punctuated by occasional outbursts in brightness during substantial... ,
HD 269810 HD 269810 \|- style="vertical-align: top;"\| Distance \| 170,000 LyHD 269810 or HDE 269810 or R 122 in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a blue star. It is one of the most massive stars known, at 150 solar masses.-External links:****...			269810		12.28	−11.1	170,000	0B	Very massive, very lumious blue star in the LMC
HE 0437-5439 HE 0437-5439 HE 0437-5439 is a massive, unbound hypervelocity star , also called HVS3. It is a main sequence B-type star located in the Dorado constellation. It was discovered in 2005 with the Kueyen 8.2 meter telescope, which is part of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array. HE...					16.3			BV	hypervelocity star in the LMC
BB Dor BB Doradus BB Doradus or BB Dor is a nova-like star....									nova-like variable Nova A nova is a cataclysmic nuclear explosion in a star caused by the accretion of hydrogen on to the surface of a white dwarf star, which ignites and starts nuclear fusion in a runaway manner... ,
SN 1987A SN 1987A SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs from Earth, approximately 168,000 light-years, close enough that it was visible to the naked eye. It could be seen from the Southern...								Sm...	supernova Supernova A supernova is a stellar explosion that is more energetic than a nova. It is pronounced with the plural supernovae or supernovas. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months... in the LMC,

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