Star profile
29 Herculis
What is 29 Herculis
29 Herculis is an orange K-type giant about 351 light-years away, in the body of the kneeling demigod. Its warm hue comes from a relatively cool photosphere, well past the main sequence: a late chapter in the life of a star that once looked more like the Sun. Its light, set out around the mid-seventeenth century, now reaches us from the Hercules of Baroque engravings.
Where it is and when to see it
29 Herculis lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is May, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 50° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 61° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 45° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 79° S.
It ranks no. 34 in brightness among the 136 stars of Hercules in our catalogue. To find it, start from Kornephoros, the brightest: it lies about 10° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 350 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 29 Herculis
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.84
- Distance
- 351.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 248.151° · Dec 11.488°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81008 · HD 149161
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Other stars in Hercules
Hercules has 136 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- KornephorosBeta Herculis2.78
- RasalgethiAlpha 1 Herculis2.78
- Zeta Herculis2.81
- 68 Herculis4.80
- 52 Herculis4.82
- 30 Herculis4.83
- 42 Herculis4.86
- 60 Herculis4.89