A-type star · white star
60 Hya
60 Hya is a white star in the constellation Hydra 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,453 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 332 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5591 · HD 132851 · HIP 73566
8,453 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
41.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
41.96×
the Sun's light output
0.79
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.