A-type star · white star

77 Her

77 Her is a white star in the constellation Hercules 376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,830 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 376 years ago.

376 lybrightness mag 5.83A4V

Also catalogued as HR 6509 · HD 158414 · HIP 85379

8,830 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
53.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
376 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
53.80×
the Sun's light output
0.52
absolute magnitude
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77 HerA-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 664124 ly
Star82 Her25 ly
StarHR 636326 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.