A-type star · white star

45 Aql

45 Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 352 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,811 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 352 years ago.

352 lybrightness mag 5.64A3IV

Also catalogued as HR 7480 · HD 185762 · HIP 96807

8,811 K

temperature

5.64

apparent magnitude

56.34× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

352 years

at light speed from Earth

1.53×

as hot as the Sun

56.34×

the Sun's light output

0.47

absolute magnitude

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45 AqlA-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.