• Head of Hydrus  Head of Hydrus is a star in Hydrus. ##### ########### ############### ################# ################# ################# ############### ########### #####  Type Yellow-white main-sequence star  Constellation Hydrus  Magnitude 2.9  Spectral type F0V  Distance 71 light years  You need naked eye   Known as  Bayer α Hyi  Yale HR 591  what it has been called: skymap.sh/Head of Hydrus/about  40.00,-83.00 now · mag 2.9 · never rises from here  Head of Hydrus is not visible from 40.00,-83.00: below the horizon.  No window in the next 40 days from this latitude.  It clears the horizon between about 16°N and 70°S: Galapagos or Machu Picchu.   Head of Hydrus never rises from 40.00,-83.00. It stays below the horizon all year at this latitude.   You will find it in Hydrus.   It is a yellow-white main-sequence star, 71 light years away, so the light reaching you left it in 1955.   Your sky here is about Bortle 7, bright, and this is still bright enough to see with the naked eye.  Follow @skymapsh for skymap.sh updates