K-type star · orange
26 Hya
26 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 337 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,925 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 115× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 337 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3706 · HD 80499 · HIP 45751
4,925 K
temperature
4.77
apparent magnitude
115× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
337 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
115×
the Sun's light output
-0.30
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.