K-type star · orange
82 Her
82 Her is an orange in the constellation Hercules 353 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,426 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 353 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6574 · HD 160290 · HIP 86182
4,426 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
74.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
353 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
74.06×
the Sun's light output
0.18
absolute magnitude
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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.