B-type star · blue-white star

26Tau8Ser

371 lybrightness mag 6.15A0V

Also catalogued as HR 5858 · HD 140729 · HIP 77111

10,100 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

39.01× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

371 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

39.01×

the Sun's light output

0.87

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

26Tau8SerB-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

Gudja →14 ly apart
15Tau3Ser →17 ly apart
38Rho Ser →27 ly apart
Marsic →36 ly apart
HR 5692 →47 ly apart
16 Her →52 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.