A-type star · white star

Marfik

173 lybrightness mag 3.82A2V

Also catalogued as 10Lam Oph · HR 6149 · HD 148857 · HIP 80883

9,859 K

temperature

3.82

apparent magnitude

72.78× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

173 years

at light speed from Earth

1.71×

as hot as the Sun

72.78×

the Sun's light output

0.20

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MarfikA-type

Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction

Nearest stars

14 Oph →12 ly apart
HR 6201 →18 ly apart
Yed Prior →21 ly apart
47 Her →22 ly apart
Rosalíadecastro →29 ly apart
HR 6137 →31 ly apart

Bright stars in Ophiuchus

Sabik →mag 2.4
13Zet Oph →mag 2.5
Yed Prior →mag 2.7
Cebalrai →mag 2.8
27Kap Oph →mag 3.2
Yed Posterior →mag 3.2
42The Oph →mag 3.3
64Nu Oph →mag 3.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.8To 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.