K-type star · orange

17 Aqr

17 Aqr is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 731 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,770 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 176× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 731 years ago.

731 lybrightness mag 5.99M0III

Also catalogued as HR 8175 · HD 203525 · HIP 105574

3,770 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
176× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
731 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
176×
the Sun's light output
-0.76
absolute magnitude
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17 AqrK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.