B-type star · blue-white star

49 Her

49 Her is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 405 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,556 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 405 years ago.

405 lybrightness mag 6.51B9.5p (Cr)

Also catalogued as HR 6268 · HD 152308 · HIP 82526

10,556 K

temperature

6.51

apparent magnitude

33.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5p (Cr)

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

405 years

at light speed from Earth

1.83×

as hot as the Sun

33.36×

the Sun's light output

1.04

absolute magnitude

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49 HerB-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Hercules

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.