K-type star · orange

71 Aql

71 Aql is an orange in the constellation Aquila 337 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,869 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 176× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 337 years ago.

337 lybrightness mag 4.31G8III SB

Also catalogued as HR 7884 · HD 196574 · HIP 101847

4,869 K
temperature
4.31
apparent magnitude
176× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
337 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
176×
the Sun's light output
-0.76
absolute magnitude
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71 AqlK-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
StarHR 801741 ly
StarHR 768159 ly
StarHR 782063 ly
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Bright stars in Aquila
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.