Constellation
The constellation Pictor
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Pictor gathers 23 naked-eye stars —down to magnitude 6— in Stelvia's catalogue. The brightest is Alpha Pictor, and the constellation reaches its highest point of the night around December.
Pictor in figures
- Catalogued stars
- 23
- Brightest star
- Alpha Pictor
- Region of the sky
- Southern sky
- Highest around
- December
- With a proper name
- 0
- Nearest star
- Beta Pictor
Those visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6
Apparent magnitude 3.24
Declination from -62° to -44°
Month when it culminates at midnight
Stars with a traditional name, not just a catalogue designation
63 light years
These figures are computed over Stelvia's catalogue —stars visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6—, not over the constellation's real total: the count, the brightest and the nearest all refer to that catalogue. The region of the sky comes from the median declination of its stars; the month, from their mean right ascension.
Every star in Pictor
The 23 stars of Pictor catalogued by Stelvia, from the brightest to the faintest. Each one has its own page.
- Alpha Pictor3.24
- Beta Pictor3.85
- Gamma Pictor4.50
- Delta Pictor4.72
- HIP 289915.04
- Eta 2 Pictor5.05
- HIP 276215.16
- HIP 309325.20
- HIP 279475.29
- Lambda Pictor5.30
- HIP 272435.31
- Eta 1 Pictor5.37
- Zeta Pictor5.44
- HIP 257685.46
- Iota Pictor5.58
- Nu Pictor5.60
- HIP 284845.65
- Mu Pictor5.69
- HIP 304635.78
- HIP 282875.81
- HIP 307035.82
- HIP 258875.86
- HIP 277375.93
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.