A-type star · white star

Xi Ser

Xi Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 105 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,712 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 105 years ago.

105 lybrightness mag 3.54F0IIIp

Also catalogued as HR 6561 · HD 159876 · HIP 86263

7,712 K
temperature
3.54
apparent magnitude
34.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IIIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
105 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
34.83×
the Sun's light output
0.99
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.5To 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.