G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

86Mu Her

27.1 lybrightness mag 3.42G5IV

Also catalogued as HR 6623 · HD 161797 · HIP 86974 · Gliese Gl 695A

5,436 K

temperature

3.42

apparent magnitude

2.58× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

27 years

at light speed from Earth

0.94×

as hot as the Sun

2.58×

the Sun's light output

3.82

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

86Mu HerG-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

StarHR 680611 ly

Star40Zet Her11 ly

StarGliese Gl 635B11 ly

StarKornephorosstar

StarRasalgethistar

Nearest stars

HR 6806 →11 ly apart
40Zet Her →11 ly apart
Gliese Gl 635B →11 ly apart
Gliese Gl 702B →14 ly apart
70 Oph →14 ly apart
37Xi Boo →18 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7
20Gam Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.