G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
84 Her
84 Her is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Hercules 127 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,660 K, and it shines at 6.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 127 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6608 · HD 161239 · HIP 86731
5,660 K
temperature
5.73
apparent magnitude
6.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2IIIb
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
127 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
6.79×
the Sun's light output
2.77
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.