B-type star · blue-white star
Rho Aqr
Rho Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 882 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,766 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 461× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 881 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8512 · HD 211838 · HIP 110273
10,766 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
461× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
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spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
881 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
461×
the Sun's light output
-1.81
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.