B-type star · blue-white star

57 Aql

57 Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 482 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 100× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 482 years ago.

482 lybrightness mag 5.70B7Vn

Also catalogued as HR 7593 · HD 188293 · HIP 97966

11,231 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
100× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
482 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
100×
the Sun's light output
-0.15
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
57 AqlB-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
Star57 Aql26 ly
Star37 Aql50 ly
StarXi¹ Cap51 ly
StarTarazedstar
StarOkabstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquila
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.