G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Zeta Her
Zeta Her is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Hercules 35.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,778 K, and it shines at 7.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 35 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6212 · HD 150680 · HIP 81693 · Gliese Gl 635A
5,778 K
temperature
2.81
apparent magnitude
7.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
35 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
7.52×
the Sun's light output
2.66
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.