B-type star · blue-white star
Chi² Hya
Chi² Hya is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 692 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,046 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 208× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 692 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4317 · HD 96314 · HIP 54255
11,046 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
208× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
692 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
208×
the Sun's light output
-0.94
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.