K-type star · orange
50 Hya
50 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 218 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,451 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 218 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5312 · HD 124206 · HIP 69415 · Gliese Gl 540.1
4,451 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
36.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
218 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
36.34×
the Sun's light output
0.95
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.