A-type star · white star
10 Hya
10 Hya is a white star in the constellation Hydra 211 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,163 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 211 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3469 · HD 74591 · HIP 42931
8,163 K
temperature
6.13
apparent magnitude
12.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
211 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
12.82×
the Sun's light output
2.08
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.