K-type star · orange

Zhang

Zhang is an orange in the constellation Hydra 264 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,949 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 129× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 264 years ago.

264 lybrightness mag 4.11G6/G8III

Also catalogued as Upsilon¹ Hya · HR 3903 · HD 85444 · HIP 48356

4,949 K
temperature
4.11
apparent magnitude
129× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
264 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
129×
the Sun's light output
-0.43
absolute magnitude
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ZhangK-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 398828 ly
StarHR 377234 ly
StarGamma Sex35 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.