A-type star · white star
101 Aqr
101 Aqr is a white star in the constellation Aquarius 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,882 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 92.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8939 · HD 221565 · HIP 116247
9,882 K
temperature
4.70
apparent magnitude
92.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.71×
as hot as the Sun
92.98×
the Sun's light output
-0.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.