Its story
24 Oph has a visual magnitude of about 6.16: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for 24 Oph: right ascension 16h 56m 48s, declination −23° 9′ 1″ (J2000), in the region of the Scorpius constellation (IAU figure Sco).
24 Oph. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 82925, HD 152849, Gaia DR3 4125503249622127872. In the SkyKeepsake Scorpius (Sco) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 82925
- Right ascension
- 16h 56m 48s
- Declination
- −23° 09′ 01″
- Magnitude
- 6.16
- Distance
- ≈ 350 ly
Data: gaia-dr3