B-type star · blue-white star
108 Aqr
108 Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 319 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,957 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 319 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 9031 · HD 223640 · HIP 117629
11,957 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
71.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
319 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
71.19×
the Sun's light output
0.22
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.