B-type star · blue-white star
27 Aql
27 Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 438 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,667 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 103× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 438 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7336 · HD 181440 · HIP 95073
10,667 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
103× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
438 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
103×
the Sun's light output
-0.18
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.