A-type star · white star
61 Ser
61 Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 614 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,403 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 131× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 614 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6957 · HD 170920 · HIP 90844
8,403 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
131× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
614 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
131×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
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.