M-type star · red

70 Aql

70 Aql is a red in the constellation Aquila 1,299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,641 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,502× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,299 years ago.

1,299 lybrightness mag 4.91K5II

Also catalogued as HR 7873 · HD 196321 · HIP 101692

3,641 K

temperature

4.91

apparent magnitude

1,502× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,299 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

1,502×

the Sun's light output

-3.09

absolute magnitude

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70 AqlM-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.