K-type star · orange
5 Her
5 Her is an orange in the constellation Hercules 251 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,762 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 251 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5966 · HD 143666 · HIP 78481
4,762 K
temperature
5.10
apparent magnitude
46.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
251 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
46.99×
the Sun's light output
0.67
absolute magnitude
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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.