K-type star · orange

Tau1Hyi

394 lybrightness mag 6.33G6/G8III

Also catalogued as HR 516 · HD 10859 · HIP 7879

4,874 K

temperature

6.33

apparent magnitude

37.33× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G6/G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

394 years

at light speed from Earth

0.84×

as hot as the Sun

37.33×

the Sun's light output

0.92

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau1HyiK-type

Sky regionHydrusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 467 →14 ly apart
HR 525 →40 ly apart
Del Men →58 ly apart
Xi Men →60 ly apart
Nu Hyi →65 ly apart
Lam Oct →67 ly apart

Bright stars in Hydrus

Bet Hyi →mag 2.8
Alp Hyi →mag 2.9
Gam Hyi →mag 3.3
Del Hyi →mag 4.1
Eps Hyi →mag 4.1
Eta2Hyi →mag 4.7
Nu Hyi →mag 4.8
Zet Hyi →mag 4.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To 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.