A-type star · white star
Chi Ser
Chi Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 220 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,731 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 220 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5843 · HD 140160 · HIP 76866
9,731 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
28.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0p Sr
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
220 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
28.92×
the Sun's light output
1.20
absolute magnitude
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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.