B-type star · blue-white star
16 Oph
16 Oph is a blue-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,277 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 499 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6224 · HD 151133 · HIP 82037
10,277 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
79.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
79.80×
the Sun's light output
0.10
absolute magnitude
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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.