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Beta Hydri comparison table |
Subject | has right ascension | has spectral type | has declination | is part of | has surface temperature | is an instance of | has V magnitude | has color | has been observ | has B-V magnitude | is usually part of | is a kind of | has apparent magnitude | has synonym | has definition | has luminosity class |
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G star | cooler than G2 | 5000 to 6000 K | yellowish | late star | Yellowish star in which the H and K lines of Ca II have become dominant and in which a tremendous profusion of spectral lines of both neutral and ionized metals, particularly iron, begins to show. The Balmer lines of hydrogen are still recognizable. Examples are the Sun and Capella. | |||||||||||
naked eye star | Milky Way | greater than 1000 Kelvin | for many centuries | asterism | naked eye object | brighter than 5 | A star visible without visual aids | |||||||||
subgiant | greater than 1000 Kelvin | star | A star whose position on the H-R diagram is intermediate between that of main-sequence stars and normal giants of the same spectral type. | IV | ||||||||||||
Beta Hydri | 0 25 45.3 | G2IV | -77 15 16 | Milky Way | 5000 to 6000 K | naked eye star | 2.80 | yellowish | for many centuries | 0.62 | asterism | brighter than 5 | HR 98 | IV |
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