K-type star · orange
29 Her
29 Her is an orange in the constellation Hercules 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,801 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 117× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 351 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6159 · HD 149161 · HIP 81008
3,801 K
temperature
4.84
apparent magnitude
117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
351 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
117×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
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.