A-type star · white star

108 Her

108 Her is a white star in the constellation Hercules 183 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,931 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 183 years ago.

183 lybrightness mag 5.61A5m

Also catalogued as HR 6876 · HD 168913 · HIP 89925

7,931 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
15.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
183 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
15.67×
the Sun's light output
1.86
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.