K-type star · orange
Nu Hyi
Nu Hyi is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 339 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,056 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 118× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 339 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 872 · HD 18293 · HIP 13244
4,056 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
118× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
339 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
118×
the Sun's light output
-0.33
absolute magnitude
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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.