A-type star · white star
19 Oph
19 Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 542 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,658 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 89.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 542 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6232 · HD 151431 · HIP 82162
8,658 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
89.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
542 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
89.70×
the Sun's light output
-0.03
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.