A-type star · white star
Bake-eo
Bake-eo is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 103 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 103 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Oph · HR 6629 · HD 161868 · HIP 87108
9,619 K
temperature
3.75
apparent magnitude
27.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
103 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
27.37×
the Sun's light output
1.26
absolute magnitude
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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.