B-type star · blue-white star
Iota Aqr
Iota Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,169 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 175 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8418 · HD 209819 · HIP 109139
11,169 K
temperature
4.29
apparent magnitude
48.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
175 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
48.31×
the Sun's light output
0.64
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.