B-type star · blue-white star

Pi Aqr

Pi Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 782 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,924 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 602× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 782 years ago.

782 lybrightness mag 4.80B1Ve

Also catalogued as HR 8539 · HD 212571 · HIP 110672

12,924 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
602× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1Ve
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
782 years
at light speed from Earth
2.24×
as hot as the Sun
602×
the Sun's light output
-2.10
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.