K-type star · orange
12 Hya
12 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 245 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,996 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 245 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3484 · HD 74918 · HIP 43067
4,996 K
temperature
4.32
apparent magnitude
91.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
245 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
91.96×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
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.