F-type star · yellow-white star
19 Aql
19 Aql is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquila 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,182 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7266 · HD 178596 · HIP 94068
7,182 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
14.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
149 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
14.78×
the Sun's light output
1.93
absolute magnitude
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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.