Constellations
Dorado (Dor)
The Dolphinfish
Also known as dolphinfish, swordfish, goldfish.
6 looks for Dorado
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Dorado
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Dolphinfish
- IAU abbreviation
- Dor
- Its stars are named
- Doradus (as in "Alpha Doradus")
- Family
- Bayer family
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in January
- Centre
- Right ascension 5h 06m, declination −59° 33′
- The figure
- 6 stars joined by 7 lines
- Brightest star
- α Dor, magnitude 3.27
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- α Dormag 3.27
- β Dormag 3.76
- γ Dormag 4.25
- δ Dormag 4.35
- 36 Dormag 4.65
- ζ Dormag 4.72
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation