F-type star · yellow-white star
Bodu
Bodu is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 417 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,848 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 282× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 417 years ago.
Also catalogued as 95 Her · HR 6729 · HD 164668 · HIP 88267
6,848 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
282× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
417 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
282×
the Sun's light output
-1.27
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.