G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
72 Her
72 Her is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Hercules 46.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,894 K, and it shines at 1.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 47 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6458 · HD 157214 · HIP 84862 · Gliese Gl 672
5,894 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
1.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
47 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
1.26×
the Sun's light output
4.60
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.