F-type star · yellow-white star

39 Aqr

39 Aqr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 137 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,956 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 137 years ago.

137 lybrightness mag 6.04F0V

Also catalogued as HR 8462 · HD 210705 · HIP 109624

6,956 K

temperature

6.04

apparent magnitude

5.91× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

137 years

at light speed from Earth

1.21×

as hot as the Sun

5.91×

the Sun's light output

2.92

absolute magnitude

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39 AqrF-type

Sky regionAquariusthis direction

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Bright stars in Aquarius

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.