A-type star · white star
Chi Oph
Chi Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 525 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,034 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 463× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 525 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6118 · HD 148184 · HIP 80569
8,034 K
temperature
4.22
apparent magnitude
463× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Vne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
525 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
463×
the Sun's light output
-1.81
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.