Star profile
107 Herculis
What is 107 Herculis
107 Herculis is a white A-type star 263 light-years away, set in summer Hercules. It glows at the limit of what an unaided human eye can catch under clean skies, almost an accomplice of the dark. It lies in one of the most celebrated skies of the northern summer, where amateurs hunt down the globular cluster M13.
Where it is and when to see it
107 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 107 Herculis
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.12
- Distance
- 263.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 275.254° · Dec 28.870°
- Catalogue
- HIP 89935 · HD 168914
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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
- 87 Herculis5.09
- 5 Herculis5.10
- 101 Herculis5.10
- 70 Herculis5.13
- 43 Herculis5.15