B-type star · blue-white star
97 Her
97 Her is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 762 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,440 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 155× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 762 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6741 · HD 164900 · HIP 88346
11,440 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
155× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
762 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
155×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
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.