F-type star · yellow-white star
Chi Her
Chi Her is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 51.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,116 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 52 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5914 · HD 142373 · HIP 77760 · Gliese Gl 602
6,116 K
temperature
4.60
apparent magnitude
3.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
52 years
at light speed from Earth
1.06×
as hot as the Sun
3.18×
the Sun's light output
3.59
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.