A-type star · white star

Omega Oph

Omega Oph is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 169 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,748 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 169 years ago.

169 lybrightness mag 4.45Ap

Also catalogued as HR 6153 · HD 148898 · HIP 80975

8,748 K
temperature
4.45
apparent magnitude
38.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
169 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
38.65×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.