Its story
16 Sco has a visual magnitude of about 5.40: under a reasonably dark sky it is typically reachable with the unaided eye.
Equatorial coordinates for 16 Sco: right ascension 16h 12m 7s, declination −8° 32′ 51″ (J2000), in the region of the Ophiuchus constellation (IAU figure Oph).
16 Sco. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 79387, HD 145607, Gaia DR3 4348404390042854912. In the SkyKeepsake Ophiuchus (Oph) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 79387
- Right ascension
- 16h 12m 07s
- Declination
- −8° 32′ 51″
- Magnitude
- 5.40
- Distance
- ≈ 256 ly
Data: gaia-dr3