F-type star · yellow-white star

Chi¹ Hya

Chi¹ Hya is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 141 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,050 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 141 years ago.

141 lybrightness mag 4.92F3IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 4314 · HD 96202 · HIP 54204 · Gliese GJ 3642A

7,050 K
temperature
4.92
apparent magnitude
17.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
141 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
17.52×
the Sun's light output
1.74
absolute magnitude
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Chi¹ HyaF-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 415717 ly
StarHR 413018 ly
StarHR 449820 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
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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.