A-type star · white star

28 Aql

28 Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 337 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,692 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 337 years ago.

337 lybrightness mag 5.53F0III

Also catalogued as HR 7331 · HD 181333 · HIP 94982

7,692 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
57.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
337 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
57.17×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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28 AqlA-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
Star2 Sge40 ly
StarHR 740742 ly
StarHR 714858 ly
StarTarazedstar
StarOkabstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquila
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquila

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.