A-type star · white star

72 Oph

72 Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 86.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,495 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 87 years ago.

86.9 lybrightness mag 3.71A4IVs

Also catalogued as HR 6771 · HD 165777 · HIP 88771 · Gliese GJ 9615A

8,495 K
temperature
3.71
apparent magnitude
20.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4IVs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
87 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
20.27×
the Sun's light output
1.58
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.7To 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.