K-type star · orange

Minchir

Minchir is an orange in the constellation Hydra 373 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,278 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 189× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 373 years ago.

373 lybrightness mag 4.45K2III

Also catalogued as Sigma Hya · HR 3418 · HD 73471 · HIP 42402

4,278 K
temperature
4.45
apparent magnitude
189× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
373 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
189×
the Sun's light output
-0.84
absolute magnitude
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MinchirK-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarRho Hya29 ly
Star37 Cnc41 ly
StarHR 330642 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.