F-type star · yellow-white star
Gamma Her
Gamma Her is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 193 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,468 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 193 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6095 · HD 147547 · HIP 80170
7,468 K
temperature
3.74
apparent magnitude
97.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
193 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
97.01×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
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.