List of stars in Carina

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This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Carina, sorted by decreasing brightness.

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This constellation's Bayer designations (Greek-letter star names) were given while it was still considered part of the constellation of Argo Navis. After Argo Navis was broken up into Carina, Vela, and Puppis, these Greek-letter designations were kept, so that Carina does not have a full complement of Greek-letter designations. For example, since Argo Navis's gamma star went to Vela, there is no Gamma Carinae.

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  1. ↑ Gray, R. O.; Garrison, R. F. (1989-02-01). "The Early F-Type Stars: Refined Classification, Confrontation with Stroemgren Photometry, and the Effects of Rotation". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 69: 301. Bibcode:1989ApJS...69..301G. doi:10.1086/191315. ISSN   0067-0049.
  2. ↑ Lopez-Cruz, O.; Garrison, R. F. (1993-01-01). "A Spectroscopic Study of High Galactic Latitude F Supergiant Stars". Luminous High-Latitude Stars. 45: 59. Bibcode:1993ASPC...45...59L.
  3. ↑ Kunitzsch, P., & Smart, T. (2006). A Dictionary of Modern star Names: A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, MA: Sky Pub. p. 25. ISBN   978-1-931559-44-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Gray, R. O.; Corbally, C. J.; Garrison, R. F.; McFadden, M. T.; Bubar, E. J.; McGahee, C. E.; O'Donoghue, A. A.; Knox, E. R. (July 2006). "Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 parsecs: The Southern Sample". The Astronomical Journal. 132 (1): 161–170. arXiv: astro-ph/0603770 . doi:10.1086/504637. ISSN   0004-6256.

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