A-type star · white star
52 Oph
52 Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 843 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,990 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 843 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6545 · HD 159376 · HIP 86060
9,990 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
150× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
843 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
150×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
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.