A-type star · white star

Upsilon Aql

Upsilon Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,321 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 175 years ago.

175 lybrightness mag 5.89A3IV

Also catalogued as HR 7519 · HD 186689 · HIP 97229

8,321 K

temperature

5.89

apparent magnitude

11.04× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

175 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

11.04×

the Sun's light output

2.24

absolute magnitude

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Upsilon AqlA-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.