B-type star · blue-white star

5 Aqr

5 Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 650 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,184 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 208× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 650 years ago.

650 lybrightness mag 5.55B9III

Also catalogued as HR 7985 · HD 198667 · HIP 103005

11,184 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
208× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
650 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
208×
the Sun's light output
-0.95
absolute magnitude
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5 AqrB-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
Star3 Aqr65 ly
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StarHR 813290 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquarius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.