K-type star · orange
Marsic
Marsic is an orange in the constellation Hercules 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,915 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 368 years ago.
Also catalogued as Kappa Her · HR 6008 · HD 145001 · HIP 79043
4,915 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.26
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.