K-type star · orange

30 Aqr

30 Aqr is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 304 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,843 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 304 years ago.

304 lybrightness mag 5.55K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8401 · HD 209396 · HIP 108868

4,843 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
45.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
304 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
45.50×
the Sun's light output
0.70
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.