B-type star · blue-white star

Iota Aql

Iota Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 391 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 226× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 391 years ago.

391 lybrightness mag 4.36B5III

Also catalogued as HR 7447 · HD 184930 · HIP 96468

11,231 K

temperature

4.36

apparent magnitude

226× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

391 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

226×

the Sun's light output

-1.03

absolute magnitude

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Iota AqlB-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquila

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.