F-type star · yellow-white star
Nu Aql
Nu Aql is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquila 2,836 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,063 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9,179× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,836 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7387 · HD 182835 · HIP 95585
6,063 K
temperature
4.64
apparent magnitude
9,179× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,836 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
9,179×
the Sun's light output
-5.06
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.