F-type star · yellow-white star

53 Her

53 Her is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 95.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,343 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 95 years ago.

95.2 lybrightness mag 5.34F0V

Also catalogued as HR 6279 · HD 152598 · HIP 82587

7,343 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
5.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
95 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
5.43×
the Sun's light output
3.01
absolute magnitude
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53 HerF-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 609119 ly
StarEta Her19 ly
StarKappa CrB23 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.