F-type star · yellow-white star
58 Oph
58 Oph is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 57.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,533 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 58 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6595 · HD 160915 · HIP 86736 · Gliese Gl 692
6,533 K
temperature
4.86
apparent magnitude
3.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6/F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
58 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
3.09×
the Sun's light output
3.63
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.