A-type star · white star
101 Her
101 Her is a white star in the constellation Hercules 329 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,354 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 329 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6794 · HD 166230 · HIP 88899
8,354 K
temperature
5.10
apparent magnitude
80.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
329 years
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
80.69×
the Sun's light output
0.08
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.