K-type star · orange

9 Hya

9 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 212 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,596 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 212 years ago.

212 lybrightness mag 4.87K0IIICN...

Also catalogued as HR 3441 · HD 74137 · HIP 42662

4,596 K
temperature
4.87
apparent magnitude
41.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
212 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
41.38×
the Sun's light output
0.81
absolute magnitude
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9 HyaK-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
Star12 Hya35 ly
StarHR 355940 ly
StarHR 338143 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.