A-type star · white star
5 Aql
5 Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 365 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,739 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 365 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7059 · HD 173654 · HIP 92117
8,739 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
48.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
365 years
at light speed from Earth
1.51×
as hot as the Sun
48.00×
the Sun's light output
0.65
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.