B-type star · blue-white star

106 Aqr

106 Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 379 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,311 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 379 years ago.

379 lybrightness mag 5.24B9V

Also catalogued as HR 8998 · HD 222847 · HIP 117089

11,311 K

temperature

5.24

apparent magnitude

94.19× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

379 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

94.19×

the Sun's light output

-0.09

absolute magnitude

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106 AqrB-type

Sky regionAquariusthis direction

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Bright stars in Aquarius

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.