K-type star · orange
Pi Hya
Pi Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 101 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,534 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 101 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5287 · HD 123123 · HIP 68895 · Gliese Gl 538.1
4,534 K
temperature
3.25
apparent magnitude
41.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
101 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
41.84×
the Sun's light output
0.80
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.