K-type star · orange

50 Aqr

50 Aqr is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 458 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,816 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 458 years ago.

458 lybrightness mag 5.76K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8534 · HD 212430 · HIP 110602

4,816 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
85.35× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
458 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
85.35×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.