G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Mu Her
Mu Her is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Hercules 27.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,436 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 27 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6623 · HD 161797 · HIP 86974 · Gliese Gl 695A
5,436 K
temperature
3.42
apparent magnitude
2.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
27 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
2.58×
the Sun's light output
3.82
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.