M-type star · red

56 Aql

56 Aql is a red in the constellation Aquila 632 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,562 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 162× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 632 years ago.

632 lybrightness mag 5.76K5III

Also catalogued as HR 7584 · HD 188154 · HIP 97928

3,562 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
162× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
632 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
162×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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56 AqlM-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
StarHR 755974 ly
StarHR 769489 ly
StarAlpha¹ Cap96 ly
StarTarazedstar
StarOkabstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquila
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.