A-type star · white star

59 Her

59 Her is a white star in the constellation Hercules 322 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,789 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 322 years ago.

322 lybrightness mag 5.27A3IV

Also catalogued as HR 6332 · HD 154029 · HIP 83313

9,789 K
temperature
5.27
apparent magnitude
66.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
322 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
66.31×
the Sun's light output
0.30
absolute magnitude
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59 HerA-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 625921 ly
StarHR 633623 ly
StarHR 644334 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.