K-type star · orange

Mu Hyi

Mu Hyi is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 284 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,789 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 284 years ago.

284 lybrightness mag 5.27G4III

Also catalogued as HR 776 · HD 16522 · HIP 11757

4,789 K
temperature
5.27
apparent magnitude
51.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
284 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
51.43×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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Mu HyiK-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
StarHR 98116 ly
StarGamma¹ Oct38 ly
StarHR 110940 ly
StarBeta Hyistar
StarAlpha Hyistar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.