M-type star · red

98 Her

98 Her is a red in the constellation Hercules 738 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,573 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 463× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 738 years ago.

738 lybrightness mag 4.96M3IIIa+...

Also catalogued as HR 6765 · HD 165625 · HIP 88657

3,573 K
temperature
4.96
apparent magnitude
463× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3IIIa+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
738 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
463×
the Sun's light output
-1.81
absolute magnitude
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98 HerM-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
Star97 Her28 ly
StarHR 696684 ly
Star93 Her96 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.