A-type star · white star
47 Her
47 Her is a white star in the constellation Hercules 177 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,951 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 177 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6250 · HD 151956 · HIP 82402
8,951 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
16.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
177 years
at light speed from Earth
1.55×
as hot as the Sun
16.57×
the Sun's light output
1.80
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.