K-type star · orange

29 Oph

29 Oph is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 579 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,032 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 579 years ago.

579 lybrightness mag 6.28K1III

Also catalogued as HR 6321 · HD 153727 · HIP 83331

4,032 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
84.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
579 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
84.49×
the Sun's light output
0.03
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.