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.
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
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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.