F-type star · yellow-white star

Zeta Ser

Zeta Ser is a yellow-white star in the constellation Serpens 76.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,934 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 77 years ago.

76.8 lybrightness mag 4.62F3V

Also catalogued as HR 6710 · HD 164259 · HIP 88175 · Gliese Gl 699.2

6,934 K

temperature

4.62

apparent magnitude

6.85× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

77 years

at light speed from Earth

1.20×

as hot as the Sun

6.85×

the Sun's light output

2.76

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionSerpensthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To 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.