A-type star · white star

Omega² Aql

Omega² Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 266 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,155 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 266 years ago.

266 lybrightness mag 6.03A2V

Also catalogued as HR 7332 · HD 181383 · HIP 95002

9,155 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
22.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
266 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
22.41×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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Omega² AqlA-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
Star10 Aql28 ly
StarHR 740738 ly
Star4 Vul40 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.