B-type star · blue-white star
Kappa Aql
Kappa Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 1,681 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,738 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,468× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,681 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7446 · HD 184915 · HIP 96483
10,738 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
2,468× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,681 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
2,468×
the Sun's light output
-3.63
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.