Star profile
77 Herculis
What is 77 Herculis
77 Herculis shines in the Greek hero at 375 light-years, a white A-type star. The bluish-white of its light reveals a young, hot surface. Hercules occupies a vast region of the northern summer sky, beside the great globular cluster M13. 77 is part of the background weave: a clear flame among thousands of lights that form the woven exploits of a myth.
Where it is and when to see it
77 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 June: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 77 Herculis
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.83
- Distance
- 375.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 261.684° · Dec 48.260°
- Catalogue
- HIP 85379 · HD 158414
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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
- HIP 903425.81
- 21 Herculis5.83
- HIP 812895.83
- 100 Herculis5.83
- HIP 821725.86