F-type star · yellow-white star

8 Aql

8 Aql is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquila 256 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,468 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 256 years ago.

256 lybrightness mag 6.08F2III

Also catalogued as HR 7101 · HD 174589 · HIP 92524

7,468 K
temperature
6.08
apparent magnitude
19.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
256 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
19.92×
the Sun's light output
1.60
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
8 AqlF-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
StarHR 702419 ly
StarHR 703423 ly
Star60 Ser36 ly
StarTarazedstar
StarOkabstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquila
Can you see it tonight?
BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.