K-type star · orange

Phi Oph

Phi Oph is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 244 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,933 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 244 years ago.

244 lybrightness mag 4.29G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HR 6147 · HD 148786 · HIP 80894

4,933 K
temperature
4.29
apparent magnitude
93.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
244 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
93.41×
the Sun's light output
-0.08
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.