K-type star · orange
90 Her
90 Her is an orange in the constellation Hercules 354 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,377 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 354 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6677 · HD 163217 · HIP 87563
4,377 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
87.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
354 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
87.58×
the Sun's light output
-0.01
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.