G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

31 Aql

31 Aql is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Aquila 49.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,401 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 49 years ago.

49.5 lybrightness mag 5.17G8IVvar

Also catalogued as HR 7373 · HD 182572 · HIP 95447 · Gliese Gl 759

5,401 K

temperature

5.17

apparent magnitude

1.72× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8IVvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

49 years

at light speed from Earth

0.94×

as hot as the Sun

1.72×

the Sun's light output

4.26

absolute magnitude

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31 AqlG-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.