B-type star · blue-white star
68 Aql
68 Aql is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 603 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,781 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 106× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 603 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7821 · HD 194939 · HIP 100977
10,781 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
106× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
603 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
106×
the Sun's light output
-0.21
absolute magnitude
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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.