16 Delphini

16 Delphini is a star in the equatorial constellation Delphinus. It has an apparent magnitude of 5.54, making it faintly visible to the naked eye. The star is relatively close at a distance of 198 light years but is receding with a poorly constrained radial velocity of $$.

16 Delphini is a chemically peculiar A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A5 V. It has twice the Sun's mass, 1.9 times it's radius, and shines at $$. This yields an effective temperature of 9,039 K, giving it a white glow. 16 Del is 400 million years old – 56.5% through its main sequence lifetime – and spins rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of $$.

16 Del has a companion that was first discovered by John Herschel and was even noted to be a spectroscopic binary. It is now considered to be a single star.