G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

Ashlesha

Ashlesha is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Hydra 129 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,653 K, and it shines at 60.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 129 years ago.

129 lybrightness mag 3.38G0III-IV

Also catalogued as Epsilon Hya · HR 3482 · HD 74874 · HIP 43109

5,653 K
temperature
3.38
apparent magnitude
60.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
129 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
60.81×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.4To 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.