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Hydrus. © 2003 Torsten Bronger.
Hydrus (abbreviation: Hyi), the Little Water Snake, is a small, faint constellation of the far southern sky (not to be confused with Hydra), partly sandwiched between the two Magellanic Clouds. See below for details of the constellation's brightest stars.
| Stars brighter than magnitude 4.0 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| star | vis mag | abs mag | spec type | distance (ly) | RA (h m s) | Dec (° ' ") |
| Beta | 2.82 | 3.45 | G2IV | 24 | 00 25 46 | -77 15 15 |
| Alpha | 2.86 | 1.16 | F0V | 71 | 01 58 46 | -61 34 12 |
| Gamma | 3.26 | -0.83 | M2III | 214 | 03 47 15 | -74 14 20 |
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