A-type star · white star

Delta Hyi

Delta Hyi is a white star in the constellation Hydrus 140 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,720 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 140 years ago.

140 lybrightness mag 4.08A3V

Also catalogued as HR 705 · HD 15008 · HIP 11001 · Gliese Gl 97.1

9,720 K
temperature
4.08
apparent magnitude
37.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
140 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
37.29×
the Sun's light output
0.92
absolute magnitude
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Delta HyiA-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
StarEpsilon Hyi13 ly
StarHR 106417 ly
StarSigma Hyi24 ly
StarBeta Hyistar
StarAlpha Hyistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydrus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydrus

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.