A-type star · white star

56Omi Ser

173 lybrightness mag 4.24A2Va

Also catalogued as HR 6581 · HD 160613 · HIP 86565

9,165 K

temperature

4.24

apparent magnitude

49.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2Va

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

173 years

at light speed from Earth

1.59×

as hot as the Sun

49.48×

the Sun's light output

0.61

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

56Omi SerA-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

69Tau Oph →22 ly apart
69Tau Oph →22 ly apart
HR 6449 →23 ly apart
HR 6534 →27 ly apart
64Nu Oph →27 ly apart
HR 6439 →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To 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.