F-type star · yellow-white star
48 Hya
48 Hya is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 183 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,481 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 183 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5257 · HD 122066 · HIP 68390
6,481 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
13.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
183 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
13.44×
the Sun's light output
2.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.