K-type star · orange
16 Ser
16 Ser is an orange in the constellation Serpens 231 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,930 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 231 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5802 · HD 139195 · HIP 76425
4,930 K
temperature
5.26
apparent magnitude
34.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
231 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
34.42×
the Sun's light output
1.01
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.