B-type star · blue-white star

57 Aql

57 Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 508 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 508 years ago.

508 lybrightness mag 6.49B8V

Also catalogued as HR 7594 · HD 188294 · HIP 97967

10,653 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
53.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
508 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
53.55×
the Sun's light output
0.53
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
57 AqlB-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
Star57 Aql26 ly
StarHR 769457 ly
StarXi¹ Cap64 ly
StarTarazedstar
StarOkabstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquila
Can you see it tonight?
BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.