G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

14 Ser

474 lybrightness mag 6.51G8III+...

Also catalogued as HR 5799 · HD 139137 · HIP 76427

5,508 K

temperature

6.51

apparent magnitude

45.79× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

474 years

at light speed from Earth

0.95×

as hot as the Sun

45.79×

the Sun's light output

0.70

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

14 SerG-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

25 Ser →32 ly apart
HR 6016 →73 ly apart
HR 5990 →77 ly apart
50 Lib →85 ly apart
HR 5536 →94 ly apart
HR 5992 →98 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 6.5To 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.