K-type star · orange
44 Aqr
44 Aqr is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 309 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,056 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 309 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8504 · HD 211434 · HIP 110023
5,056 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
39.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
309 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
39.23×
the Sun's light output
0.87
absolute magnitude
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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.