A-type star · white star

53 Oph

53 Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,652 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 338 years ago.

338 lybrightness mag 5.80A2V

Also catalogued as HR 6548 · HD 159480 · HIP 85998

9,652 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
44.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
338 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
44.67×
the Sun's light output
0.72
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.