F-type star · yellow-white star
29 Aqr
29 Aqr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 882 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,639 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 177× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 881 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8396 · HD 209278 · HIP 108797
6,639 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
177× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0/1V + K1/2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
881 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
177×
the Sun's light output
-0.77
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.