B-type star · blue-white star

56 Aqr

56 Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 631 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,752 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 631 years ago.

631 lybrightness mag 6.36B8II

Also catalogued as HR 8567 · HD 213236 · HIP 111086

10,752 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
93.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
631 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
93.15×
the Sun's light output
-0.07
absolute magnitude
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56 AqrB-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
Star42 Aqr59 ly
StarHR 878399 ly
StarHD 216727110 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.