K-type star · orange
41 Oph
41 Oph is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 206 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,474 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 206 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6415 · HD 156266 · HIP 84514
4,474 K
temperature
4.72
apparent magnitude
44.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
206 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
44.87×
the Sun's light output
0.72
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.