Star
Alphard
Alphard is an orange star 180 light-years away, seen as it was 180 years ago, shining 426 times as bright as the Sun.
The brightest star in Hydra. Its name is Arabic for 'the individual', there being no other bright stars near it.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 180 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.99
- Spectral type
- K3III
- Catalogue
- HIP 46390
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.