K-type star · orange

71 Oph

71 Oph is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 273 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,864 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 273 years ago.

273 lybrightness mag 4.64G8III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 6770 · HD 165760 · HIP 88765

4,864 K
temperature
4.64
apparent magnitude
84.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
273 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
84.80×
the Sun's light output
0.03
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.