K-type star · orange

Lambda Hyi

Lambda Hyi is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 212 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,043 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 212 years ago.

212 lybrightness mag 5.09K5III

Also catalogued as HR 236 · HD 4815 · HIP 3781

4,043 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
33.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
212 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
33.79×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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Lambda HyiK-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
StarTheta Oct14 ly
StarLambda¹ Tuc21 ly
StarLambda² Tuc23 ly
StarBeta Hyistar
StarAlpha Hyistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydrus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.