A-type star · white star
Alpha Hyi
Alpha Hyi is a white star in the constellation Hydrus 71.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,526 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 72 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 591 · HD 12311 · HIP 9236 · Gliese Gl 83
7,526 K
temperature
2.86
apparent magnitude
30.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
72 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
30.28×
the Sun's light output
1.15
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.