A-type star · white star

Rho Oph

Rho Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 361 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,960 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 159× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 361 years ago.

361 lybrightness mag 4.57B2V

Also catalogued as HR 6112 · HD 147933 · HIP 80473

7,960 K
temperature
4.57
apparent magnitude
159× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
361 years
at light speed from Earth
1.38×
as hot as the Sun
159×
the Sun's light output
-0.65
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.