M-type star · red

Lambda Aqr

Lambda Aqr is a red in the constellation Aquarius 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,613 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 391× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 385 years ago.

385 lybrightness mag 3.73M2IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 8698 · HD 216386 · HIP 112961

3,613 K
temperature
3.73
apparent magnitude
391× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
391×
the Sun's light output
-1.63
absolute magnitude
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Lambda AqrM-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
Star67 Aqr20 ly
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Bright stars in Aquarius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.