Star profile
83 Herculis
What is 83 Herculis
83 Herculis is an orange K-type giant about 406 light-years away, in the helm of the demigod whom Greek myth pictured kneeling across the sky. Its warm hue speaks of a cooled surface, the signature of stars that have left the main sequence. Its light, set out around the beginning of the seventeenth century, travelled while Kepler was unveiling his three laws and Galileo first turned his glass on Jupiter.
Where it is and when to see it
83 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 83 Herculis
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.56
- Distance
- 405.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 265.618° · Dec 24.564°
- Catalogue
- HIP 86667 · HD 161074
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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 866235.54
- HIP 849495.55
- HIP 836925.56
- HIP 890085.57
- HIP 820285.60