K-type star · orange

56 Hya

56 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 358 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,897 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 358 years ago.

358 lybrightness mag 5.23G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HR 5516 · HD 130259 · HIP 72357

4,897 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
84.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
358 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
84.88×
the Sun's light output
0.03
absolute magnitude
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56 HyaK-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
Star59 Hya21 ly
StarHR 549927 ly
StarSolitaire29 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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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.