B-type star · blue-white star
96 Her
96 Her is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 940 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,573 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 574× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 940 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6738 · HD 164852 · HIP 88331
11,573 K
temperature
5.25
apparent magnitude
574× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
940 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
574×
the Sun's light output
-2.05
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.