B-type star · blue-white star

Rho Hya

Rho Hya is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 354 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,709 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 354 years ago.

354 lybrightness mag 4.35A0Vn

Also catalogued as HR 3492 · HD 75137 · HIP 43234

10,709 K
temperature
4.35
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
354 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.