K-type star · orange

69 Aql

69 Aql is an orange in the constellation Aquila 200 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,389 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 200 years ago.

200 lybrightness mag 4.91K2III

Also catalogued as HR 7831 · HD 195135 · HIP 101101

4,389 K

temperature

4.91

apparent magnitude

35.51× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

200 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

35.51×

the Sun's light output

0.97

absolute magnitude

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69 AqlK-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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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.