A-type star · white star

Sabik

Sabik is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 88.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,444 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 88 years ago.

88.4 lybrightness mag 2.43A2.5Va

Also catalogued as Eta Oph · HR 6378 · HD 155125 · HIP 84012 · Gliese Gl 656.1A

9,444 K
temperature
2.43
apparent magnitude
68.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2.5Va
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
88 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
68.17×
the Sun's light output
0.27
absolute magnitude
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SabikA-type
Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction
StarGliese Gl 656.1B4.2 ly
StarHR 62699.5 ly
Star44 Oph15 ly
StarZeta Ophstar
StarYed Priorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ophiuchus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.4To 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.