K-type star · orange

43 Her

43 Her is an orange in the constellation Hercules 354 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,742 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 89.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 354 years ago.

354 lybrightness mag 5.15K5III

Also catalogued as HR 6228 · HD 151217 · HIP 82073

3,742 K
temperature
5.15
apparent magnitude
89.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
354 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
89.45×
the Sun's light output
-0.03
absolute magnitude
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43 HerK-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
Star29 Her27 ly
StarHR 612135 ly
Star21 Her37 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.