B-type star · blue-white star
21 Aql
Also catalogued as HR 7287 · HD 179761 · HIP 94477
11,107 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
363× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
711 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
363×
the Sun's light output
-1.55
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.