G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
12 Aqr
12 Aqr is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Aquarius 502 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,660 K, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 502 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8058 · HD 200496 · HIP 103981
5,660 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
502 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
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.