G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Beta Hyi
Beta Hyi is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Hydrus 24.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,898 K, and it shines at 3.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 24 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 98 · HD 2151 · HIP 2021 · Gliese Gl 19
5,898 K
temperature
2.82
apparent magnitude
3.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
24 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
3.61×
the Sun's light output
3.46
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.