A-type star · white star

Epsilon Ser

Epsilon Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 70.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 70 years ago.

70.4 lybrightness mag 3.71A2m

Also catalogued as HR 5892 · HD 141795 · HIP 77622 · Gliese GJ 3921

8,597 K

temperature

3.71

apparent magnitude

13.33× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

70 years

at light speed from Earth

1.49×

as hot as the Sun

13.33×

the Sun's light output

2.04

absolute magnitude

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Epsilon SerA-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.