B-type star · blue-white star
Beta Hya
Beta Hya is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 310 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,573 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 310 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4552 · HD 103192 · HIP 57936
11,573 K
temperature
4.29
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
310 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
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.