B-type star · blue-white star
112 Her
112 Her is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 406 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,061 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 406 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7113 · HD 174933 · HIP 92614
11,061 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
90.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
406 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
90.70×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
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.