B-type star · blue-white star

12Tau2Ser

469 lybrightness mag 6.22B9V

Also catalogued as HR 5770 · HD 138527 · HIP 76069

10,625 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

58.61× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

469 years

at light speed from Earth

1.84×

as hot as the Sun

58.61×

the Sun's light output

0.43

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

12Tau2SerB-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5874 →37 ly apart
7 Ser →40 ly apart
HD 138085 →46 ly apart
HR 5639 →56 ly apart
HR 5924 →71 ly apart
HR 5640 →86 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.