F-type star · yellow-white star

Sigma Hyi

Sigma Hyi is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydrus 132 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,635 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 132 years ago.

132 lybrightness mag 6.15F5/F6IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 593 · HD 12363 · HIP 8991

6,635 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

4.98× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5/F6IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

132 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

4.98×

the Sun's light output

3.11

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.