B-type star · blue-white star

Eps Hyi

152 lybrightness mag 4.12B9III

Also catalogued as HR 806 · HD 16978 · HIP 12394

10,956 K

temperature

4.12

apparent magnitude

42.46× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

152 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

42.46×

the Sun's light output

0.78

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eps HyiB-type

Sky regionHydrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Del Hyi →13 ly apart
Nu Hor →20 ly apart
HR 571 →24 ly apart
Lam Hor →24 ly apart
Mu Hor →25 ly apart
HR 1064 →26 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
Eta2Hyi →mag 4.7
Nu Hyi →mag 4.8
Zet Hyi →mag 4.8
Lam Hyi →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook 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.