A-type star · white star
10 Ser
10 Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 130 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,830 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 130 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5746 · HD 137898 · HIP 75761
7,830 K
temperature
5.15
apparent magnitude
11.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
130 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
11.98×
the Sun's light output
2.15
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.