K-type star · orange
Phi³ Hya
Phi³ Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 211 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,938 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 211 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4171 · HD 92214 · HIP 52085
4,938 K
temperature
4.91
apparent magnitude
39.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
211 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
39.45×
the Sun's light output
0.86
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.