K-type star · orange

Pi² Hyi

Pi² Hyi is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 488 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,111 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 105× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 488 years ago.

488 lybrightness mag 5.67K2III

Also catalogued as HR 678 · HD 14287 · HIP 10513

4,111 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
105× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
488 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
105×
the Sun's light output
-0.21
absolute magnitude
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Pi² HyiK-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
StarHD 1829241 ly
StarHR 60047 ly
StarTheta Hyi57 ly
StarBeta Hyistar
StarAlpha Hyistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydrus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.