K-type star · orange
Nu Oph
Nu Oph is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 151 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,774 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 151 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6698 · HD 163917 · HIP 88048
4,774 K
temperature
3.32
apparent magnitude
87.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
151 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
87.42×
the Sun's light output
-0.00
absolute magnitude
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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.