K-type star · orange

6 Hya

6 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,926 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 388 years ago.

388 lybrightness mag 4.98K3III

Also catalogued as HR 3431 · HD 73840 · HIP 42509

3,926 K
temperature
4.98
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.40
absolute magnitude
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6 HyaK-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
Star22 Pup37 ly
StarHR 332038 ly
StarHR 352953 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
Can you see it tonight?
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.