B-type star · blue-white star

74 Aqr

74 Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 826 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,279 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 267× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 826 years ago.

826 lybrightness mag 5.80B8IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 8704 · HD 216494 · HIP 113031

11,279 K

temperature

5.80

apparent magnitude

267× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

826 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

267×

the Sun's light output

-1.22

absolute magnitude

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74 AqrB-type

Sky regionAquariusthis direction

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Bright stars in Aquarius

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.