B-type star · blue-white star

66 Oph

651 lybrightness mag 4.79B2Ve

Also catalogued as HR 6712 · HD 164284 · HIP 88149

11,573 K
temperature
4.79
apparent magnitude
421× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Ve
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
651 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
421×
the Sun's light output
-1.71
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.