B-type star · blue-white star

52 Hya

52 Hya is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 393 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,153 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 130× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 393 years ago.

393 lybrightness mag 4.97B7/B8V

Also catalogued as HR 5407 · HD 126769 · HIP 70753

11,153 K

temperature

4.97

apparent magnitude

130× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7/B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

393 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

130×

the Sun's light output

-0.44

absolute magnitude

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52 HyaB-type

Sky regionHydrathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To 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.