F-type star · yellow-white star

54 Hya

54 Hya is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 98.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,368 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 99 years ago.

98.8 lybrightness mag 5.15F0V + G/K

Also catalogued as HR 5497 · HD 129926 · HIP 72197 · Gliese Gl 561.1A

7,368 K

temperature

5.15

apparent magnitude

6.96× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V + G/K

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

99 years

at light speed from Earth

1.28×

as hot as the Sun

6.96×

the Sun's light output

2.74

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionHydrathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.