F-type star · yellow-white star

Tau2Hyi

202 lybrightness mag 6.05F0III

Also catalogued as HR 550 · HD 11604 · HIP 8366

7,229 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

12.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

202 years

at light speed from Earth

1.25×

as hot as the Sun

12.66×

the Sun's light output

2.09

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau2HyiF-type

Sky regionHydrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Lam Hyi →24 ly apart
The Oct →27 ly apart
Gam Hyi →34 ly apart
Nu Men →38 ly apart
HR 8234 →39 ly apart
Lam1Tuc →40 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 6.0To 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.