A-type star · white star
69 Her
69 Her is a white star in the constellation Hercules 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 175 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6436 · HD 156729 · HIP 84606
9,619 K
temperature
4.64
apparent magnitude
35.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
175 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
35.12×
the Sun's light output
0.99
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.