B-type star · blue-white star
46 Aql
46 Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 703 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,200 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 703 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7493 · HD 186122 · HIP 96931
11,200 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
703 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
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.