M-type star · red
36 Aql
36 Aql is a red in the constellation Aquila 529 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,428 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 223× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 529 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7414 · HD 183630 · HIP 95937
3,428 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
223× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
529 years
at light speed from Earth
0.59×
as hot as the Sun
223×
the Sun's light output
-1.02
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.