B-type star · blue-white star
Omicron Aqr
Omicron Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 435 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,573 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 197× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 435 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8402 · HD 209409 · HIP 108874
11,573 K
temperature
4.74
apparent magnitude
197× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IVe
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
435 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
197×
the Sun's light output
-0.89
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.