G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

41 Aqr

41 Aqr is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Aquarius 233 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,245 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 233 years ago.

233 lybrightness mag 5.33K1III

Also catalogued as HR 8480 · HD 210960 · HIP 109786

5,245 K

temperature

5.33

apparent magnitude

32.93× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

233 years

at light speed from Earth

0.91×

as hot as the Sun

32.93×

the Sun's light output

1.06

absolute magnitude

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41 AqrG-type

Sky regionAquariusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Aquarius

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.