A-type star · white star

Phi Aql

Phi Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,954 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 219 years ago.

219 lybrightness mag 5.28A1IV

Also catalogued as HR 7610 · HD 188728 · HIP 98103

9,954 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
30.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
219 years
at light speed from Earth
1.72×
as hot as the Sun
30.48×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.