B-type star · blue-white star
Epsilon Hyi
Epsilon Hyi is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydrus 152 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,956 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 152 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 806 · HD 16978 · HIP 12394
10,956 K
temperature
4.12
apparent magnitude
42.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
152 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
42.46×
the Sun's light output
0.78
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.