B-type star · blue-white star
Omicron Her
Omicron Her is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,355 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 272× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 338 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6779 · HD 166014 · HIP 88794
10,355 K
temperature
3.84
apparent magnitude
272× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
338 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
272×
the Sun's light output
-1.24
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
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.