A-type star · white star

Rho Aql

Rho Aql is a white star in the constellation Aquila 150 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,308 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 150 years ago.

150 lybrightness mag 4.94A2V

Also catalogued as HR 7724 · HD 192425 · HIP 99742

9,308 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
19.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
150 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
19.46×
the Sun's light output
1.63
absolute magnitude
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Rho AqlA-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
StarTheta Sge15 ly
StarEta Sge18 ly
Star14 Vul26 ly
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Bright stars in Aquila
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.