B-type star · blue-white star

40Ups2Hya

314 lybrightness mag 4.60B8V

Also catalogued as HR 3970 · HD 87504 · HIP 49402

11,359 K

temperature

4.60

apparent magnitude

116× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

314 years

at light speed from Earth

1.97×

as hot as the Sun

116×

the Sun's light output

-0.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

40Ups2HyaB-type

Sky regionHydrathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3988 →38 ly apart
8Gam Sex →47 ly apart
HR 4059 →49 ly apart
Bibha →52 ly apart
Zhang →53 ly apart
HR 3822 →57 ly apart

Bright stars in Hydra

46Gam Hya →mag 3.0
16Zet Hya →mag 3.1
Nu Hya →mag 3.1
49Pi Hya →mag 3.3
Ashlesha →mag 3.4
Xi Hya →mag 3.5
41Lam Hya →mag 3.6
42Mu Hya →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To 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.