A-type star · white star

44 Oph

44 Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 83.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,572 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 83 years ago.

83.2 lybrightness mag 4.16A3IV:m

Also catalogued as HR 6486 · HD 157792 · HIP 85340 · Gliese Gl 673.1

7,572 K

temperature

4.16

apparent magnitude

12.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV:m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

83 years

at light speed from Earth

1.31×

as hot as the Sun

12.27×

the Sun's light output

2.13

absolute magnitude

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44 OphA-type

Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.