F-type star · yellow-white star
Chi Aql
Chi Aql is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquila 854 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,067 K, about 1.1 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 854 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7497 · HD 186203 · HIP 96957
6,067 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
461× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V:+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
854 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
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.