K-type star · orange

Pi¹ Hyi

Pi¹ Hyi is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 777 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,711 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 292× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 777 years ago.

777 lybrightness mag 5.57M1III

Also catalogued as HR 667 · HD 14141 · HIP 10418

3,711 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
292× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
777 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
292×
the Sun's light output
-1.31
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.