A-type star · white star
20 Aql
20 Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 979 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,086 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 569× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 979 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7279 · HD 179406 · HIP 94385
9,086 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
569× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
979 years
at light speed from Earth
1.57×
as hot as the Sun
569×
the Sun's light output
-2.04
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.