K-type star · orange
Ukdah
Ukdah is an orange in the constellation Hydra 263 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,098 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 263 years ago.
Also catalogued as Iota Hya · HR 3845 · HD 83618 · HIP 47431
4,098 K
temperature
3.90
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
263 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.64
absolute magnitude
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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.