B-type star · blue-white star

Delta Hya

Delta Hya is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,088 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 160 years ago.

160 lybrightness mag 4.14A1Vnn

Also catalogued as HR 3410 · HD 73262 · HIP 42313

10,088 K
temperature
4.14
apparent magnitude
46.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vnn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
160 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
46.47×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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Delta HyaB-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarZeta Hya14 ly
StarHR 364925 ly
Star50 Cnc25 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarNu Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To 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.