B-type star · blue-white star
37 Her
37 Her is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6195 · HD 150378 · HIP 81641
10,175 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
34.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
34.71×
the Sun's light output
1.00
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.