F-type star · yellow-white star

100 Aqr

100 Aqr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 248 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,343 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 248 years ago.

248 lybrightness mag 6.24F0V

Also catalogued as HR 8932 · HD 221357 · HIP 116118

7,343 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
16.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
248 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
16.13×
the Sun's light output
1.83
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.