F-type star · yellow-white star

51 Aql

51 Aql is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquila 90.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,870 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 91 years ago.

90.9 lybrightness mag 5.38F0V

Also catalogued as HR 7553 · HD 187532 · HIP 97650

6,870 K

temperature

5.38

apparent magnitude

4.77× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

91 years

at light speed from Earth

1.19×

as hot as the Sun

4.77×

the Sun's light output

3.15

absolute magnitude

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51 AqlF-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.